MASTERFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does masterful mean? 

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

1. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASTERFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

Synonyms:

consummate; masterful; masterly; virtuoso

Context example:

a virtuoso performance

Similar:

skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)

 Context examples 

The strong, masterful personality of Holmes dominated the tragic scene, and all were equally puppets in his hands.

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

The next instant he was his masterful, practical self once more.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The eyes were blue-gray under great black tufts, very clear, very critical, and very masterful.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had whistled in a masterful, careless way, and they had come to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You may be chosen to be the actor to appear as the star of the show or to do a masterful voiceover for a children’s movie (Leo is associated with little munchkins).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When John spoke in that masterful tone, Meg always obeyed, and never regretted her docility.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was something so imperative and masterful about him that I was quite beside myself—“rattled,” as Furuseth would have termed it, like a quaking child before a stern school-master.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The gods were all- wise, and there was no telling what masterful treachery lurked behind that apparently harmless piece of meat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As he came within the circle of light thrown by the windows, a whisper ran round as to who this masterful gentleman with the pale face and the driving-coat might be, and a lane was formed to admit us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he was a masterful dog, and what made him dangerous was the fact that the club of the man in the red sweater had knocked all blind pluck and rashness out of his desire for mastery.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)