masterful vs masterly
masterful
Definitions
adjective
- having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Examples
Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
Her masterful brush strokes and use of colour fired up many critics and curators and received immediate recognition.
He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.
masterly
Definitions
adjective
- having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Examples
The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.
The description of the cultural and physical coarsening which the circumstances evoke is masterly.
You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.
