1. masterly - Adjective
2. masterly - Adverb
4. masterly - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. James Mackintosh
Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of action, I notice, are rarely humble, even in situations where action of any kind is a great mistake, and masterly inaction is called for. Robertson Davies
... It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. Edith Wharton
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
The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon it. [Stolid immobility or masterly inactivity.]. Latin Proverb