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Freebase Dali · 11-03-2010, 04:25 PM

Speaking of "brilliant"...
I was always under the impression that we Americans almost exclusively used the term brilliant to describe someone who was very intelligent, bordering on genius.

I notice British folks using that term to [what seems like] describe basically anything that's awesome.

Is that just a matter of usage, or do we have two separate de facto definitions?

11-03-2010, 04:25 PM	#88 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	Speaking of "brilliant"... I was always under the impression that we Americans almost exclusively used the term brilliant to describe someone who was very intelligent, bordering on genius. I notice British folks using that term to [what seems like] describe basically anything that's awesome. Is that just a matter of usage, or do we have two separate de facto definitions?