masterful

masterful
    adj 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" [syn:
           {consummate}, {masterful}, {masterly}, {virtuoso(a)}]
    

Masterful \Mas"ter*ful\, a.
   1. Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious;
      arbitrary. --Dryden.
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   2. Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or
      expressing power or mastery.
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            His masterful, pale face.             --Mrs.
                                                  Browning.
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120 Moby Thesaurus words for "masterful":
      Daedalian, U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accomplished,
      adept, adroit, apt, arbitrary, archetypical, aristocratic,
      arrogant, artistic, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic,
      bossy, bravura, brilliant, classic, clean, clever, consummate,
      coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft,
      despotic, developed, dexterous, dextrous, dictatorial, diplomatic,
      doctrinaire, dogmatic, dominating, domineering, elitist, excellent,
      exemplary, expert, exquisite, fancy, feudal, finished, first-rate,
      fully developed, good, goodish, graceful, grinding, handy,
      high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, hubristic,
      imperative, imperial, imperious, ingenious, lordly, magisterial,
      magistral, master, masterly, matchless, mature, matured, model,
      monocratic, neat, no mean, oppressive, overbearing, overruling,
      overweening, peerless, peremptory, perfected, polished, politic,
      preeminent, professional, proficient, quick, quintessential,
      quite some, ready, refined, repressive, resourceful, ripe, ripened,
      self-willed, severe, skilled, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike,
      strict, stylish, superb, superior, superlative, suppressive,
      supreme, tactful, the compleat, the complete, transcendent,
      tyrannical, tyrannous, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike