Masterful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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