Usually means: Expertly skilled and impressively commanding.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. masterful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. masterful: Merriam-Webster
  3. masterful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. masterful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. masterful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. masterful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Masterful, masterful: Wordnik
  8. masterful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. masterful: Wiktionary
  10. masterful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. masterful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. masterful: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Masterful, masterful: Dictionary.com
  14. masterful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Masterful: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Masterful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. masterful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. masterful: Rhymezone
  19. masterful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. masterful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. masterful: FreeDictionary.org
  22. masterful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. masterful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. masterful: Legal dictionary
  2. masterful: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masterful: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masterful: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masterful: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the manner of a master of an art, technique, profession, or craft; masterly.
▸ adjective:  In the manner of a master; very skillful.
▸ adjective:  Having or showing the qualities of a master vis-a-vis a dependent or subordinate; authoritative; domineering.

Similar:
masterly, skilled, imperious, domineering, virtuoso, consummate, masterfull, magisterial, crafty, Masonic, more...

Opposite:
unskilled, incompetent, inept, clumsy, awkward

Phrases:
the masterful virtuoso, more...

Adjectives:
young, masterly, little, poor, most

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    royal blue,     gold,     burgundy,     charcoal,     crimson, more...



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Similar:
masterly, skilled, imperious, domineering, virtuoso, consummate, masterfull, magisterial, crafty, Masonic, more...

Opposite:
unskilled, incompetent, inept, clumsy, awkward

Phrases:
the masterful virtuoso, more...

Adjectives:
young, masterly, little, poor, most

Colors:
    royal blue,     gold,     burgundy,     charcoal,     crimson, more...



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