Masterly

Definition: Masterly

Masterly

Adjective

1. Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance".

Date "masterly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Synonyms: Masterly

Synonyms: consummate (adj), masterful (adj), virtuoso(a) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Skill	Adjective: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart; (active); proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant; (knowing).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Masterly

English words defined with "masterly": consummate ♦ Master stroke, masterful, Masterliness, Masterous ♦ respectfully ♦ To be one's own master, tour de force ♦ virtuoso ♦ with all respect. (references)

Specialty definitions using "masterly": Cut a Dash ♦ Single-Speech Hamilton. (references)

Etymologies containing "masterly": Masterous. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Masterly inactivity! (The Man Who Never Was; writing credit: Nigel Balchin; Ewen Montagu)
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Domain	Title
Books	25 Cuentos Argentinos Magistrales/25 Masterly Argentine Stories (reference) Behind Barres: The Mystique of Masterly Teaching (reference) Electronic Calculators: A Masterly Approach (reference) Masterly Marketing (HBR OnPoint Collection) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Masterly Miniatures from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold in a Historic-Geographic Perspective (800-1475 (reference) (more book examples)
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	Battle of Ridgeway, C.W. Victory of Gen'l O'Neil. "Masterly" retreat of the Queens own.Credit: Library of Congress.		Masterly understatement.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Sir James Mackintosh	The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He combined with admirable art and in masterly proportions the thirst of a guzzler with the discretion of a judge.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Masterly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.21% of the time. "Masterly" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.21%	110	30,952
Noun (proper)	1.79%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	112	N/A

Expression using "masterly": in a masterly way. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "masterly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mjeshtëror (clever, daedal, masterful, workmanlike), mjeshtërisht (neatly), prej mjeshtri. (various references)

Arabic		‏فناني, ‏متقن (accurate, artful, dexterous, dextrous, exact, excellent, exquisite, masterful, neat, perfect, precise, skilful, skillful, subtle), ‏على نحو بارع, ‏إبداعي (creative, inventive), ‏أستاذي (professorial), ‏بحذاقة, ‏بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian		съвършен (consummate, finished, full, ideal, indefectible, out and out, outright, perfect, right-down, spheral, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, transcendent, unexceptionable, very), отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, slick, spanking, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), майсторски (masterful, skilful, skillful). (various references)

Chinese		主要 (Cardinal, largely, main, mainly, major, mostly, Predominant, Primarily, Primary, Principal). (various references)

Czech		mistrovský (masterful). (various references)

Finnish		mestarillinen, taiturillinen (skilful). (various references)

French		magistral (magisterial, magistral). (various references)

German		meisterhaft (expertly, masterful, masterfully, superb). (various references)

Greek		έντεχνοσ (skilful, workmanlike), μαστορικόσ (workmanlike). (various references)

Hebrew		אומ� ותי. (various references)

Hungarian		mesteri (magisterial, masterful), kiváló (accomplished, brilliant, choice, conspicuous, crack, crackerjack, distinguished, excellent, finished, first rate, great, high-class, illustrious, noted, paramount, pre eminent, premium, prime, prominent, rattling, signal, to send sy one's kind regards), ügyesen (ably, adeptly, adroitly, capably, deftly, expeditiously, expertly, nattily, skillfully, sleekly, slick, slickly, to jink, to play one's cards well), ügyes (able, adept, adroit, artful, clean, clever, crafted, cunning, dab, daedalian, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodge, expeditious, expenditious, facile, feat, good, habile, handy, ingenious, natty, nimble-fingered, politic, proficient, ready worker, skilful, skillful, skilly, slick, to know how many beans make five, versatile). (various references)

Italian		magistrale (magisterial, magistral, skilful, skillful), maestro (boss, instructor, maestro, main, master, schoolmaster, teacher), sapiente (learned, scholar), abile (able, adept, adroit, artful, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, facile, fit, handy, knowing, masterful, proficient, skilful, skillful). (various references)

Korean		주되게. (various references)

Manx		mainshteroil, mainshteragh (mastering). (various references)

Pig Latin		asterlymay

Portuguese		magistral (magisterial, magistral, masterless), perfeito (absolute, accomplished, bijou, classic, classical, clean, close, consummate, crowned, exact, finisher, flawless, handsome, impeccable, perfect, perfectibility, precious, sculpturesque, sound, thorough, thoroughpaced, throughly, unalloyed, undeniable, unexceptionable, unmitigated), livre (bohemian, clear, disengaged, exempt, fetterlock, floating, free, idle, immunity, independent, leisurely, loose, off, quit, spare, spontaneous, unappropriated, unattached, unconstrained, unencumbered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unoccupied, unrestrained, untied, untrammelled). (various references)

Romanian		meşteşugit (artistically, skilful, skilfully, skillful, skillfully), mãiestrit, cu mãiestrie, artistic (artistic, artistical, artistically, Arty, elaborately, scientific). (various references)

Russian		совершенный (complete, dead, exquisite, ideal, out and out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, perfective, right-down, thorough, unexceptionable, unexceptional), великолепный (celestial, colossal, excellent, first rate, frabjous, glorious, gorgeous, immense, magnificent, princely, proud, rattling good, royal, scrumptious, sensational, splendid, superb, tops), мастерски. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		majstorski (crack-a-jack, magisterial, magistral, master), vešto (ably, craftily, knowingly, skillfully), izvanredan (extraordinary, nifty, outstanding, raving, remarkable, spanking, super, superb, terrific, whacking). (various references)

Spanish		magistral (magisterial, magistral), maestro (crack, Dean, do all, expert, instructor, lecturer, maestro, main, master, masterful, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, teacher), genial (affable, brilliant, genial, individual, pleasant, typical). (various references)

Swedish		mästerlig. (various references)

Turkish		ustaca (adroitly, masterful, skillfully, slick). (various references)

Ukranian		майстерно (artistically, masterfully, nattily, skilfully, skillfully, workmanlike), майстерний (bijou, curious, daedal, dedal, dexterous, handicraft, masterful, natty, neat-handed, shrewd, skilful, skillful, technical, workmanlike). (various references)

Vietnamese		t� i giỏi (clever, master, proficient), t� i cao (masterful, masterliness). (various references)

Welsh		meistrolgar (masterful), gorchestol (excellent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "masterly": schoolmasterly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Masterly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asterley, Masterfly, Messerli, mustardly, Rastrelli. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "masterly" (pronounced ma"sterlē)
5	-s t er l ē	easterly, northeasterly, northwesterly, westerly.
4	-t er l ē	bitterly, painterly, quarterly, utterly.
3	-er l ē	brotherly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northerly, orderly, overly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, Weatherly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: armlets, lamster, mastery, myrtles, smartly, streamy, tramels.
	-2 letters: alerts, alters, armets, armlet, artels, elytra, estral, estray, lamest, laster, layers, lyrate, lysate, master, maters, mateys, matres, mayest, measly, metals, myrtle, ramets, ratels, realms, realty, relays, salter, samlet, slater, slatey, slayer, smarty, smeary, staler, stayer, steamy, stelar, stream, stylar, styler, talers, tamely, tamers, termly.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-r-s-t-y"
	+3 letters: erythrismal, heartsomely, masterfully, mayoralties, methylators, symmetrical.
	+4 letters: amateurishly, asymmetrical, demonstrably, isothermally, meristically.
	+5 letters: amphiprostyle, chromatolyses, impersonality, isometrically, magisterially, martyrologies, measurability, mensurability, methacrylates, ministerially, plethysmogram, postembryonal, remonstrantly, sacramentally, sempiternally, supplementary, symmetrically, temerariously, underlayments, unsymmetrical.
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