Meaning of MASTERFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'masturful
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- [adj] able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | consummate, domineering, imperious, masterly, skilled, virtuoso(a) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mas"ter*ful\, a.
1. Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious;
arbitrary. --Dryden.
2. Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or
expressing power or mastery.
His masterful, pale face. --Mrs.
Browning.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Daedalian, 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, U, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike |
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