Auditions to replace "brilliant"?

22 comments

• NinaBambina

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  9 years ago

  I've always liked the word "Superb."
• londonguy

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  9 years ago

  You could use 'Ace" or 'The bees knees', or maybe 'hunky dory'.....all British alternatives to Brilliant?
• 4got2wipe

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  9 years ago

  Ace suggestion londonguy! I like them all!
• rockstar666

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  9 years ago

  "Smashing!"
• twentyfive

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  9 years ago

  fantastic
• ATACdawg

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  9 years ago

  Brilliance!
• Meursault

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  9 years ago

  Cracking. But I like "ballz" better. It makes for nice symmetry when you want to use "bullocks" when you feel negatively toward something.
• Mate27

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  9 years ago

  "Nooooice!" As a form of saying nicely done. It's better if we can hear u say it. Sorry, but the way people are saying it on tv and such seems to be a thing lately.
• JohnSmith69

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  9 years ago

  Variety is one of the characteristics of good writing. You don't need a word to use all the time. You just need to use whatever word(s) fit the particular topic.
• MrDeuce

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  9 years ago

  I find your use of "brilliant" quirkily charming. You might mix in an occasional "brill", as the Brits sometimes do.
• rh48hr

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  9 years ago

  I vote for Nooice [view link]
• londonguy

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  9 years ago

  Or you could say "the dogs bollocks" like we do?
• londonguy

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  9 years ago

  @ MrDeuce. We use Brill far more than Brilliant.
• crazyjoe

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  9 years ago

  You started brilliant, it got traction,now it is unstoppable! Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!
• MrDeuce

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  9 years ago

  Thanks, londonguy -- I thought so!
• Confucious

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  9 years ago

  Brilliant is good, but I agree that variety is the spice of life and makes things interesting. Why not mix it up a little? Brilliant! Smashing! Superb! Nooooice! Outstanding! Fantastic! Tremendous! are all good options in my opinion. Keep us guessing. Then, when you do use brilliant! it will be more appreciated.
• pensionking

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  9 years ago

  That is so fetch!.
• twentyfive

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  9 years ago

  The reason behind my suggestion that you use fantastic is as follows Three old ladies are sitting around the pool in their retirement community talking about their successful grown children The fist lady says to the other two my son is a lawyer and he is so rich and handsome for my ninetyith birthday he sent me on a two month cruise around the world on first class cabin on the queen Mary The second lady said great, and the third lady said fantastic. The second lady not to be bested said my son is a rich and handsome man also he is a nurosurgeon and for my ninetyith birthday he purchased a little piedaterre in the south of France so whenever I feel like a change of pace I head over there sometimes I go shopping in Paris other times I head to the Costa Del Sol. Any way the one lady who spoke first said how nice and the third lady said fantastic. A few moments passed the first two ladies turned to the third and asked how about your son. She replied my son Marvin is a good boy and I don't like to brag but for my ninetyith birthday Marvin "the plumber" as everyone calls him he does ok he isn't wanting for anything he signed me up at an exclusive finishing school for ladies and one of the first things that they taught me was to say fantastic when I really mean bullshit they said it would make me more popular and they were right.
• yndy

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  9 years ago

  Perhaps: Stunning
• rl27

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  9 years ago

  Why not start in the middle, and use the word adequate. That way if something is good it's adequate. If it's bad it would be below adequate, and if it's really good, then stupendously adequate.
• Clubber

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  9 years ago

  Since from the get go I thought "brilliant" was anything but, I would suggest something dramatic like, good and bad!
• motorhead

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  9 years ago

  Coruscating