masterly

Examples

• All

• Word of Schwinger's masterly performances was not limited to the Harvard community.

  Academic text (1995)

• For a masterly analysis of this issue from a specifically rhetorical perspective, see James Phelan's chapter in this volume.

  Academic text (2009)

• Now, at her signal, the rest of us lost control at once: me telling Grandma in a sober, masterly voice not to upset Grandpa.

  Fiction book (1992)

• It's a combination of the masterly and the simplistic that makes the drawings so successful, too.

  Fiction book (2001)

• J. S. Hogg was a masterly politician who knew how to please a crowd when he made speeches.

  Blog text (25)

• What about Menakhem Perry's masterly analysis of "A Rose for Emily"?

  Academic text (2005)

• Like Toulouse-Lautrec, he will come to represent his period, and he will be treasured for the masterly way he epitomized it.

  Academic text (2016)

• Thirty years later, the former Professor of History at the University of Reading and political colleague of Margaret Thatcher produced a masterly account of a more distant, though no less controversial, episode in Spanish history: Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico.

  Academic text (2011)

• Many of his sensitive analyses are masterly—for example, the paragraph on Millet's Gleaners in the Louvre:

  Academic text (1990)

• The pianist gave a masterly performance that left the audience in awe.

Synonyms

S

skillful

vsmasterly

34 2.8

Good at doing something because of practice and careful control

means a far higher, almost complete level of skill and control

M

masterful

vsmasterly

33 5.3

Showing great skill and control

emphasizes supreme skill rather than authority or commanding tone

C

consummate

vsmasterly

• Formal

27 7.7

Extremely skilled and perfect in what they do

focuses on showing supreme skill in action rather than naming perfection

V

virtuoso

vsmasterly

4 8.2

Showing very great skill, often in music or art

is broader, showing supreme skill across contexts not limited to one field

Antonyms

C

clumsy

73 1.2

Moving in an awkward, unsteady way that causes accidents

I

inept

49 5.0

Not good at something and often clumsy

Compounds

M

masterly command

• Formal

6.7

Great skill and control in a subject or activity

How Skillful

masterly

• Formal

2 5.9

expert

3 3.5

adept

43 4.2

skilled

172 3.5

competent

114 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology