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masterful

/mas-ter-fuhl, mah-ster-/US // ˈmæs tər fəl, ˈmɑ stər- //UK // (ˈmɑːstəfʊl) //

娴熟的,精湛的,高超的,娴熟

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dominating; self-willed; imperious.
    • : having or showing the qualities of a master; authoritative; powerful.
    • : showing mastery or skill; masterly: a masterful performance.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.expert, skilled

Examples

  • Appel was masterful, throwing six scoreless innings, walking just one and striking out six, looking every bit like a pitcher ready to help Philadelphia down the stretch.

  • It’s a lovely book by a deep thinker and a masterful storyteller.

  • Describing in detail each and every addition would be a masterful feat, one that would take far too long to read.

  • Even at his age, CP3 is still a masterful orchestrator, pulling defenders this way and that with a shoulder-shrug here, a head nod there or a momentary flick of his eyes in one direction or another.

  • As he concludes his masterful book, “Whatever you think about the company — and the man — that controls so much of our economic reality in the third decade of the twenty-first century, there is no turning back now.”

  • Dear Thief is worthy of the abused critical adjectives philosophical, atmospheric, and masterful.

  • Washington, a truly masterful storyteller, grew up in what he calls “a wacky cult”—the Worldwide Church of God.

  • The pageant did achieve the dubious honor of becoming a masterful example of "show" versus "tell."

  • The scenes between Redmayne and Jones where the latter party struggles to pull him away from the edge are masterful.

  • “When I first met Ed, I thought he was a peculiar guy, but when I got my hands on the book, it was masterful,” Osse said.

  • The somewhat full double chin, and the carriage of her head, gave her a masterful look.

  • Gatien Boirouge was made game of by Lousteau, to whom he had confessed his love for that masterful woman.

  • We have seen that in his theories he did not admit of individual passion, finding it too masterful, too familiar and violent.

  • He knew that if he were really panic-stricken and attempted to carry it off in the masterful manner, she would laugh in his face.

  • "Tell me what is the matter," he said, a stronger note in his voice, the old masterful spirit asserting itself again.