Word Meanings - MASTERFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary. Dryden. 2. Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or expressing power or mastery. His masterful, pale face. Mrs. Browning.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MASTERFUL)

• Ruling
• Governing
• reigning
• controlling
• masterful
• predominant
• regulating
• prevalent

Related words: (words related to MASTERFUL)

• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• PREVALENTLY
  In a prevalent manner. Prior.
• PREDOMINANT
  Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• PREDOMINANTLY
  In a predominant manner.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• REIGN
  regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, 1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and
• RULELESS
  Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• RULING
  1. Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign. 2. Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen. Syn. -- Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guilding; governing; prevailing;
• RULE-MONGER
  A stickler for rules; a slave of rules Hare.
• CONTROLLABLE
  Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• REIGNER
  One who reigns.
• RULINGLY
  In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
• GOVERNING
  Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.
• CONTROLLER
  An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• FERULIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
• CHONDRULE
  A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
• PREIGNITION
  Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
• PURULENCE; PURULENCY
  The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.
• TORULA
  A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• SERRULATION
  1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
• VIRULENCE; VIRULENCY
  1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. 2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• SERRULA
  The red-breasted merganser.
• GASTRULA
  An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by
• TRULLIZATION
  The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.
• FERULACEOUS
  Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
• TRULY
  1. In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented. I can not truly say how I came here. Shak. 2. Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight
• VIRULENT
  1. Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott. 2. Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.