0 able to control people and situations in a confident way: --
Once she became a prosecutor, she quickly established herself as a masterful trial lawyer.
1 If an action is masterful, it is very skilful: --
a masterful performance
2 having great skill in a particular job or activity, or something produced with such skill: --
He was a masterful synthesizer and master of the review essay or synthetic thought piece.
Once forged, he was quick to discover its strength, and wielded it with masterful skill and ruthlessness.
The combination of these two techniques makes for a masterful balance of skillful precision and powerful expression.
He created masterful small paintings of village life in a palette of monochrome greys.
In both books he showed himself to be a great stylistic innovator and a masterful storyteller.
The song demands the voice of a masterful soprano.
His genius for organization was of a very high order; and he was masterful, rich in resources, and possessed of an inflexible will.
Still, he s delivered a pacy, vigorous and frequently masterful take on a well-worn genre.