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unbrilliant

  • a word derived from brilliant.
    brilliant
    adjective
    shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous.

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His wife’s refusal to eat, to cook, or to permit meat in her house persists to the point that Mr. Cheong fears she is hampering his unbrilliant career, so he appeals to her family.

From Slate Feb. 5, 2016

He left it for two happy but unbrilliant years at West Point, later spent five years with the late Illustrator N.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is what lends lure to Robert Dhery's unbrilliant compere patter, appealingness to Pierre Olaf's pranks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The writing, in general, is dogged, honest and unbrilliant, and to chronicle the Greenland patrol, those qualities are sufficient.

From Time Magazine Archive

In one thing Bermuda is eminently tropical—was in May, at least—the unbrilliant, slightly faded, unrejoicing look of the landscape.

From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Mark Twain