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masterful - 10 thesaurus results
Main Entry: masterful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: expert, skilled
Synonyms: adept, adroit, clever, consummate, crack, crackerjack*, deft, dexterous, excellent, exquisite, fine, finished, first-rate, master, masterly, preeminent, proficient, skillful, superior, superlative, supreme, transcendent
Notes: masterful can mean dominating, domineering, imperious, and imposing; masterly can describe having the skills of a master and means adroit and expert
Antonyms: amateurish, ignorant, stupid, unskilled, unproficient
Main Entry: adept
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very able
Synonyms: accomplished, ace*, adroit, brainy, capable, clean*, crack*, crackerjack*, deft, dexterous, expert, hot*, hotshot, know stuff, masterful, masterly, no dummy, no slouch, nobody's fool, on the ball*, on the beam, practiced, proficient, quick, savvy, sharp, sharp as a tack, skilled, skillful, slick, smooth, there, up to speed, versed, whiz*, wizard
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, incompetent, inept, unskilled
Main Entry: adroit
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very able or skilled
Synonyms: adept, apt, artful, clean, clever, crack*, crackerjack*, cunning, cute, deft, dexterous, expert, foxy*, good, handy, ingenious, masterful, neat*, nifty*, nimble, on the ball*, proficient, quick-witted, savvy, sharp, skillful, slick, smart, up*, whiz*, wizard, hot tamale, on the beam, quick on the trigger, quick on the uptake, up to speed
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, dense, inept, stupid, unskilled
Main Entry: magisterial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: authoritative
Synonyms: autocratic, domineering, egotistic, imperious, masterful, pompous
Main Entry: masterly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: superior
Synonyms: consummate, excellent, masterful, proficient, skillful, superb
Main Entry: polished
Part of Speech: adjective4
Definition: well executed
Synonyms: accomplished, excellent, flawless, impeccable, masterful, masterly, skilled, skillful
Main Entry: able
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: able to perform well; having a proven capacity
Synonyms: accomplished, adroit, agile, artful, au fait, brilliant, capable, clever, deft, dexterous, effective, effectual, efficient, equal to, experienced, expert, facile, gifted, ingenious, intelligent, keen, know backwards and forwards, know one's onions, know the ropes, learned, masterful, masterly, powerful, practiced, prepared, proficient, qualified, responsible, savvy, sharp, skilled, skillful, smart, talented, there, trained, up to it, up to snuff, up to speed, with it*
Antonyms: delicate, feeble, inept, stupid, weak
Main Entry: aggressive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: assertive
Synonyms: bold, brassy*, cheeky*, cocky*, come on*, domineering, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, flip*, forceful, fresh*, hard sell, imperious, masterful, militant, nervy*, pushing, pushy, sassy, smart*, strenuous, tough, vigorous, zealous, assertory, get up and go, go after, shooting from the hip, smart alecky
Antonyms: complaisant, laid-back
Main Entry: cunning
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: imaginative
Synonyms: able, adroit, canny, clever, crackerjack*, deft, dexterous, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, skillful, sly, smart, smooth, subtle, slighty, well-laid, well-planned
Antonyms: unimaginative, unclever
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Main Entry: skill
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
gain, a good hand at, able, accomplished, adroit, affabrous, alive to, ambidextral, ambidextrous, apt, artistic, at home in, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conversant, crack, cunning, cut out for, dab, daedalian, dedal, deft, dexterous, discreet, efficient, endowed, experienced, expert, fabrile, felicitous, fine, fit for, fitted, fitted for, gifted, good at, habile, hackneyed, hand, in practice, in proper cue, ingenious, initiated, inventive, master of, masterful, masterly, neat, practiced, prepared, primed, proficient, qualified, quick, ready, scientific, sharp, shipshape, shrewd, skilled, skillful, smart, statesmanlike, surefooted, talented, technical, thoroughbred, trained, up in, up to, up to snuff, up to the mark, well up in, workmanlike
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