MASTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mastered mean? 

• MASTERED (adjective)
  The adjective MASTERED has 1 sense:

1. understood perfectly

  Familiarity information: MASTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Understood perfectly

Synonyms:

down; down pat; mastered

Context example:

had his algebra problems down

Similar:

perfect (being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish)

 Context examples 

“I am not accustomed, sir,” he began, but mastered his anger and resumed his seat.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The resolute and unrelenting hatred of her tone, its cold stern sharpness, and its mastered rage, presented her before me, as if I had seen her standing in the light.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was mastered by the verb "to eat." He was hunger-mad.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The boy hesitated, then mastered his temper.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Martin Eden had been mastered by curiosity all his days.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To be compelled to run away before the yelling pack, every dog of which, for three years, he had thrashed and mastered, was almost more than he could endure.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her: with more rope, which was at hand, he bound her to a chair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Amy got no farther, for Jo's hot temper mastered her, and she shook Amy till her teeth chattered in her head, crying in a passion of grief and anger...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then with an effort he mastered himself and spoke on: The vicar knew. He was in our confidence.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)