Masterful \Mas"ter*ful\, a.
1. Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious;
arbitrary. --Dryden.
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2. Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or
expressing power or mastery.
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His masterful, pale face. --Mrs.
Browning.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
masterful
adj 1: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate
artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker";
"masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the
sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn: consummate,
masterly, virtuoso(a)]
2: able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the
matter with an imperious wave of her hand" [syn: imperious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "masterful":
Daedalian, U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accomplished,
adept, adroit, apt, arbitrary, archetypical, aristocratic,
arrogant, artistic, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic,
bossy, bravura, brilliant, classic, clean, clever, consummate,
coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft,
despotic, developed, dexterous, dextrous, dictatorial, diplomatic,
doctrinaire, dogmatic, dominating, domineering, elitist, excellent,
exemplary, expert, exquisite, fancy, feudal, finished, first-rate,
fully developed, good, goodish, graceful, grinding, handy,
high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, hubristic,
imperative, imperial, imperious, ingenious, lordly, magisterial,
magistral, master, masterly, matchless, mature, matured, model,
monocratic, neat, no mean, oppressive, overbearing, overruling,
overweening, peerless, peremptory, perfected, polished, politic,
preeminent, professional, proficient, quick, quintessential,
quite some, ready, refined, repressive, resourceful, ripe, ripened,
self-willed, severe, skilled, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike,
strict, stylish, superb, superior, superlative, suppressive,
supreme, tactful, the compleat, the complete, transcendent,
tyrannical, tyrannous, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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