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Definition of Masterly

1. Adjective. Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill. "A virtuoso performance"

Definition of Masterly

1. a. 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.

2. adv. With the skill of a master.

Definition of Masterly

1. very skillful [adj]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Masterly

master's degree Master's two-step exercise test master-at-arms masterdom masterdoms mastered masterful masterfully masterfulness masterfulnesses

masteries mastering masterless masterliness masterlinesses masterly (current term) mastermind masterminded masterminding masterminds

masterpiece masterpieces Masters mastership masterships mastersinger mastersingers masterstroke masterstrokes masterwork

Literary usage of Masterly

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1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... as a grand coup, а тир dt maître (a masterly stroke), so " to cut " means to make a masterly coup, to do something to be looked at and talked about. ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"Announcement Peggy O'Neal By Alfred Henry Lewis Author of "Wolfville," Etc., Etc. The Plot is masterly and the Incident Exciting Illustrated by HENRY HUTT ..."

3. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"He wanders through the whole scene ven' masterly, without neglecting his victuals. If it be, as I have heard it sometimes mentioned, a great qualification ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"It is a brief and a masterly survey of the sanitary condition of London from the time of the Norman conquest until our own era. When in the ' Dental Review ..."

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