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MASTERFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Example:
a virtuoso performance
Synonyms:
consummate; masterful; masterly; virtuoso
Classified under:
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Context examples:
Then, in the first place, do you agree with me that I have a right to be a little masterful, abrupt, perhaps exacting, sometimes, on the grounds I stated, namely, that I am old enough to be your father, and that I have battled through a varied experience with many men of many nations, and roamed over half the globe, while you have lived quietly with one set of people in one house?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His long white beard and searching eyes imparted to him an air of masterful dignity, which was increased by his tabardlike vesture and the heraldic barret cap with triple plume which bespoke his office.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was more masterful than ever.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The country inspector’s face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes’s investigation.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Only now did I realize how I had learned to lean upon my companions, upon the serene self-confidence of Challenger, and upon the masterful, humorous coolness of Lord John Roxton.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There were some jovial faces amongst them, but the older officers, with their deep-lined cheeks and their masterful noses, were, for the most part, as austere as so many weather-beaten ascetics from the desert.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Every moment was drive, drive, drive, and Joe was the masterful shepherd of moments, herding them carefully, never losing one, counting them over like a miser counting gold, working on in a frenzy, toil-mad, a feverish machine, aided ably by that other machine that thought of itself as once having been one Martin Eden, a man.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Perhaps it was to this that the golden colour was due; but golden his eyes were, enticing and masterful, at the same time luring and compelling, and speaking a demand and clamour of the blood which no woman, much less Maud Brewster, could misunderstand.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In common garb, his masterful face and flashing eye would have marked him as one who was born to rule; but now, with his silken tunic powdered with golden fleurs-de-lis, his velvet mantle lined with the royal minever, and the lions of England stamped in silver upon his harness, none could fail to recognize the noble Edward, most warlike and powerful of all the long line of fighting monarchs who had ruled the Anglo-Norman race.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
