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UK
/mˈɑːstəmˌaɪnd/
]
[ US /ˈmæstɝˌmaɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˈmæstɝˌmaɪnd/ ]
NOUN
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someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
he's smart but he's no Einstein
Mozart was a child genius - someone who creates new things
VERB
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plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
he masterminded the robbery
How To Use mastermind In A Sentence
- As professional profiler, Max suspects that the mastermind is a frustrated academic.
- But now the wannabe mechanic has masterminded an innovative scheme to help put both himself and other youngsters on the road to success.
- It is not known how he came to Europe to mastermind the attacks or if he remained in hiding. Times, Sunday Times
- Guitarist and producer Dave is a PhD student at Columbia, and a musical mastermind.
- John Barnard, the world's greatest designer, has been recruited by new team mastermind Harvey Postlethwaite.
- He is set to become a working peer and likely to mastermind civil service reform. Times, Sunday Times
- There is ample fact -- and we also have plenty of evidence -- proving that this incident was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said today, in denouncing the Dalai Lama's supporters as instigators of what he described as violent protests that rocked the region in recent days. What They Are Saying
- They called him a mastermind, they called him a genius… but he couldn't plan for this?
- Beneath the cartoon graphics lurks a series of puzzles so fiendish and ingenious that only a twisted mastermind could think of them. Times, Sunday Times
- The senior officers who masterminded the murder have not been indicted.