Masterful

Definition: Masterful

Masterful

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".

2. Able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand".

Date "masterful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Masterful

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

Crosswords: Masterful

English words defined with "masterful": consummate ♦ masterfully, masterly ♦ virtuoso. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Yes that is masterful. (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera)
Movie/TV Titles	The Masterful Hireling (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Advanced Wicca: Exploring Deeper Levels of Spiritual Skills and Masterful Magick (reference) Masterful Coaching (reference) Masterful Coaching Fieldbook (reference) Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne Van Biema Collection (reference) Masterful Woodturning (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Pierce Brosnan	Oh, sure, there is nothing you can do about that. And so it should be. But Bruce Beresford was fantastic. He's just very masterful with actors, and it was a great ensemble cast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Masterful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.88% of the time. "Masterful" is used about 97 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)	95.88%	93	34,067
Noun (proper)	4.12%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	97	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "masterful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mjeshtëror (clever, daedal, masterly, workmanlike), dominues (dominant, imperious, magisterial, prevalent, regnant, upmost), autoritar (authoritarian, authoritative, commanding, domineering, high handed, imperious, magisterial, overbearing, peremptory). (various references)

Arabic		‏متقن (accurate, artful, dexterous, dextrous, exact, excellent, exquisite, masterly, neat, perfect, precise, skilful, skillful, subtle), ‏متسلط (authoritative, bossy, commanding, dominating), ‏مستبد (absolute, despot, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, highhanded, imperious, tyrannical), ‏ذو براعة, ‏رئيسي (arch, arterial, broad, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple), ‏بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterly, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian		своеволен (anarchic, anarchical, arbitrary, headstrong, high handed, opinionated, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, unauthorized, unmanageable, untoward, unwarranted, wayward, willful), властен (authoritative, dictatorial, domineering, high handed, imperious, overmastering, peremptory, possessive, self-assertive), майсторски (masterly, skilful, skillful), изкусен (adroit, clever, cunning, daedal, expert, light fingered, mean, neat, proficient, scientific, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, technic, technical, tricksy, versed, workmanlike), деспотичен (bossy, despotic, domineering, heavy-handed, peremptory, tyrannical). (various references)

Czech		mistrovský (masterly), panovaèný (authoritarian, high handed, imperious, possessive, tyrannical). (various references)

Dutch		bazig (bossy). (various references)

Esperanto		estrema (bossy). (various references)

French		impérieux (mandatory), dominateur (master), autoritaire. (various references)

German		meisterhaft (expertly, masterfully, masterly, superb), herrisch (authoritative, bossy, bullying, despotic, domineering, imperative, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overbearingly, peremptorily, peremptory). (various references)

Greek		επιδέξιοσ (adroit, artful, deft, dexterous, dextrous, great at, manipulator, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick), δεσποτικόσ (absolute, imperious, magisterial). (various references)

Hebrew		שתלט� י (bossy, dominant, domineering, high and mighty, imperious, overbearing), שולט (dominant, overriding, predominant), אמ� ותי (artistic). (various references)

Hungarian		mesteri (magisterial, masterly), hatalmaskodó (bossy, domineering, overbearing). (various references)

Indonesian		bagus sekali (magnificent). (various references)

Italian		imperioso (authoritative, imperative, imperious, overbearing), autoritario (authoritarian, authoritative, bossy), abile (able, adept, adroit, artful, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, facile, fit, handy, knowing, masterly, proficient, skilful, skillful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		名人芸 (masterful performance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		めいじ�"�'い (masterful performance). (various references)

Manx		smaghtagh (afflicting, authoritarian, castigatory, correction, disciplinarian, restraining, restrictive, subduer, tameable, victor). (various references)

Pig Latin		asterfulmay.(various references)

Portuguese		magistral (magisterial, magistral, masterly), poderoso (mighty, overpowering, potent, powerful, puissant, sovereign), imperioso (bounden, imperious, overbearing, peremptory), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), dominador (overbearing, overmastering), autoritário (authoritarian, bossy, commanding, dictatorial, dog-cheap, domineering, emphatic, magisterial, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive), arbitrário (arbitrary, overbearing, wanton). (various references)

Romanian		poruncitor (authoritative, imperative, imperatively, imperious, overbearing, overbearingly, peremptory). (various references)

Russian		властный (autocratic, autocratical, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, high handed, high-handed, imperious, overbearing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zapovednički (bossy, commanding, domineering, imperious, magisterial, overbearing, possessive), koji ume da predvodi. (various references)

Spanish		dominante (besetting, bossy, commanding, dominant, dominating, domineering, ruling, towering). (various references)

Swedish		dominerande (ascendant, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, overbearing, paramount, predominant, predominantly). (various references)

Turkish		ustaca (adroitly, masterly, skillfully, slick), hükmeden (commanding, determinant, dominant, domineering, governing, regnant, suzerain), buyurucu (authoritative, imperative, imperious, peremptory), amir (chief, commander, in charge, overlord, overman). (various references)

Ukrainian		упевнений (assured, certain, cocksure, confident, convinced, reliant, secure, sure), владний (arbitrary, authoritarian, authoritative, dictatorial, high and mighty, high handed, imperative, imperious, magisterial, overbearing), майстерний (bijou, curious, daedal, dedal, dexterous, handicraft, masterly, natty, neat-handed, shrewd, skilful, skillful, technical, workmanlike). (various references)

Vietnamese		mệnh lệnh (prescript), thích sai khiến, thích bắt người ta phải tuân theo mình bậc thầy, t� i cao (masterliness, masterly), siêu việt (supereminent), oai, hách. (various references)

Welsh		meistrolgar (masterly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "masterful": masterfully, masterfulness, masterfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Masterful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Masterfile, Masterfit, Masterfly, masterfull. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "masterful" (pronounced ma"sterful)
4	-er f u l	colorful, flavorful, powerful, wonderful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-m-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: refutals, staumrel.
	-2 letters: amulets, armfuls, armlets, armsful, earfuls, estrual, falters, ferulas, flamers, fluster, fluters, fulmars, lamster, matures, maulers, muletas, refusal, refutal, restful, saluter, serumal, strumae, sulfate, tearful, tramels.
	-3 letters: afters, alerts, alters, amulet, amuser, armets, armful, armlet, artels, artful, earful, estral, estrum, falser, falter, farles, faster, faults, femurs, ferula, festal, feuars, flamer, flames.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-m-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: formulates.
	+2 letters: masterfully.
	+3 letters: reformulates, ultraleftism.
	+4 letters: masterfulness, metalliferous, preformulates, ultraleftisms.
	+5 letters: reformulations.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
b b b b b b b b black death magazine magazine masterful metal metal metal	6
masterful	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Masterful

Definition: Masterful

Masterful

Adjective

Synonyms: Masterful

Crosswords: Masterful

Modern Usage: Masterful

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Masterful

Books

Spoken Usage: Masterful

Pierce Brosnan

Usage Frequency: Masterful

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Masterful

b b b b b b b b black death magazine magazine masterful metal metal metal

masterful

Modern Translation: Masterful

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Derivations & Misspellings: Masterful

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Rhyming with "Masterful"

Anagrams: Masterful

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