| 例句 | masterfuladjective accomplished with trained abilitya masterful performance of a difficult piece for the violin adroit, artful, bravura, deft, delicate, dexterous(also dextrous), expert, masterly, practiced(also practised), skillful, virtuoso, workmanlike facile, smoothartistic, creative, fancy, ingenious, neatadept, clever, cunningable, adequate, capable, competent amateur, amateurish, artless, rude, unprofessional, unskillful awkward, clumsy, crude, klutzyineffective, ineffectualincompetent, ineptfond of ordering people arounda masterful coworker who liked to tell other people how to do their jobs authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic(also autocratical), bossy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, overbearing, peremptory, tyrannical(also tyrannic), tyrannous arrogant, assumptive, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, self-asserting, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppitycommanding, controlling, dictating, regimentalarbitrary, high-handed, imperialdirectorial, magisterialaggressive, assertive, self-assertiveimperativeconceited, narcissistic, pompous, vainall-powerful, almighty, omnipotentfirm, stern humble, meek, modest, unassumingamenable, docile, obedient, tractableindecisive, irresoluteacquiescent, compliant, passive, resigned, submissive, yieldinghaving a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitudea masterful businesswoman who didn't hesitate to step on a lot of people as she climbed the ladder of success arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin(also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppity authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificatingcondescending, disdainful, patronizingimpertinent, impudent, saucysnobbish, snobby, snootyblusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vaingloriouscomplacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), hubristic, narcissistic, orgulous, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-upself-flattering, self-loving, self-promotingbrash, forward, uninhibited, unreservedextroverted(also extraverted), immodest humble, lowly, modest, unarrogant, unpretentious bashful, cowering, cringing, demure, diffident, introverted, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, self-critical, self-doubting, sheepish, shrinking, shy, subdued, timidacquiescent, compliant, deferential, meek, passive, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive, yieldingquiet, reserved, retiringhaving or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavora president who was celebrated as a masterful communicator of his administration's policies accomplished, ace, adept, compleat, complete, consummate, crack, crackerjack, educated, experienced, expert, good, great, master, masterly, practiced(also practised), professed, proficient, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuoso adroit, clever, deft, dexterous(also dextrous), handy, slick, sure-handedgifted, talentedpolished, refinedeffective, effectual, efficient, workmanlikeable, capable, competent, employable, fit, fitted, habile, qualifiedknowledgeable, schooled, taught, trained, tutoredall-around(also all-round), well-roundedlong-term, oldmultiskilled, multitalented amateur, amateurish, inexperienced, inexpert, jackleg, unprofessional, unseasoned, unskilled, unskillful incapable, incompetent, inept, unable, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, weakartless, crude, rudeineffective, ineffectual, inefficienttalentless, ungifted, untalentedignorant, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutoredbeginning, green, inexperienced, new, raw, unseasoned, untested, untried, would-beprimitive, rough, unpolishedawkward, clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handedmasterful, domineering, imperious, peremptory, imperative mean tending to impose one's will on others.masterful implies a strong personality and ability to act authoritatively.her masterful personality soon dominated the movementdomineering suggests an overbearing or arbitrary manner and an obstinate determination to enforce one's will. children controlled by domineering parentsimperious implies a commanding nature or manner and often suggests arrogant assurance. an imperious executive used to getting his own wayperemptory implies an abrupt dictatorial manner coupled with an unwillingness to brook disobedience or dissent. given a peremptory dismissalimperative implies peremptoriness arising more from the urgency of the situation than from an inherent will to dominate. an imperative appeal for assistance in the 15th century |