Definition of Masterly

Masterly

Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy.

Imperious; domineering; arbitrary.

With the skill of a master.

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Masterly Quotations

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
Clifton Fadiman

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Masterly Translations

masterly in German is meisterhaft

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