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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superior |
| Synonyms: | consummate, excellent, masterful, proficient, skillful, superb |
| Notes: | masterful can mean dominating, domineering, imperious, and imposing; masterly can describe having the skills of a master and means adroit and expert |
| Main Entry: | accomplished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skilled in activity |
| Synonyms: | able, adept, brainy, consummate, cool*, cultivated, expert, gifted, hep, hip*, masterly, polished, practiced, proficient, savvy, sharp, skillful, talented, wised up, with it |
| Antonyms: | inept, inexpert, unable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adept |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very able |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, ace*, adroit, brainy, capable, clean*, crack*, crackerjack*, deft, dexterous, expert, hot*, hotshot, know stuff, masterful, masterly, no dummy, no slouch, nobody's fool, on the ball, on the beam, practiced, proficient, quick, savvy, sharp, sharp as a tack, skilled, skillful, slick, smooth, there, up to speed, versed, whiz*, wizard |
| Antonyms: | awkward, clumsy, incompetent, inept, unskilled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skillful; cunning |
| Synonyms: | adept, adroit, clever, crafty, designing, dexterous, foxy*, ingenious, masterly, politic, proficient, resourceful, scheming, sharp, shrewd, slick*, sly, smart, smooth*, tricky, wily |
| Antonyms: | artless, ingenuous, naive, unskillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | authoritative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domineering |
| Synonyms: | assertive, authoritarian, autocratic, commanding, confident, decisive, dictatorial, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dominating, imperative, imperious, imposing, masterly, officious, peremptory, self-assured |
| Notes: | authoritarian is tyrannical while authoritative commands respect |
| Antonyms: | democratic |
| Main Entry: | brilliant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very intelligent |
| Synonyms: | Einstein, accomplished, acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, eggheaded, expert, genius, gifted, ingenious, intellectual, inventive, knowing, knowledgeable, masterly, penetrating, profound, quick, quick-witted, sharp, smart, talented, whip, whiz kid |
| Antonyms: | stupid, unaware, unintelligent |
| Main Entry: | capable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to perform |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, adapted, adept, adequate, apt, au fait, clever, competent, dynamite, efficient, experienced, fireball, fitted, gifted, good, green thumb, has what it takes, having know-how, having the goods, having the right stuff, intelligent, knowing the ropes, knowing the score, like a one-man band, like a pistol, masterly, old hand, old-timer, on the ball, proficient, proper, qualified, skillful, suited, talented, there, up to it, up to snuff, up to speed, up*, veteran |
| Notes: | able is having the necessary power to accomplish something while capable means having the potential to accomplish something |
| Antonyms: | impotent, incapable, incompetent, inept, unable, unskilled, unskillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | classic/classical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | best, model |
| Synonyms: | archetypal, capital, champion, consummate, definitive, distinguished, esthetic, excellent, exemplary, famous, fine, finest, first-rate, flawless, ideal, master, masterly, paradigmatic, paramount, perfect, prime, quintessential, ranking, standard, superior, top, top-notch, vintage, well-known |
| Antonyms: | inferior, worst |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, tactful |
| Synonyms: | accurate, adept, cautious, considerate, deft, detailed, diplomatic, discreet, expert, foresighted, heedful, masterly, minute, politic, precise, proficient, prudent, sensitive, skilled, tactical, wary |
| Antonyms: | indelicate, inelegant, insensitive, uncareful, unscrupulous |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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