Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: virtuoso
IPA transcription: [vɚtʃu'oʊsoʊ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: consummate, masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)
    Meaning: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz
    Meaning: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Usage examples
  • According to his own lights the Russian virtuoso was right: his strength was not equal to the task, and so, imitating Chopin, he topsy-turvied the shading.
  • Henriette was visibly angry the other morning when I took to her the early mail and she discovered that Mrs. Van Varick Shadd had got ahead of her in the matter of Jockobinski, the monkey virtuoso.
  • His thirty years of musical service to the house of Esterhazy, with an orchestra increasing from 16 to 24 pieces to experiment on, as the solo virtuoso experiments on piano or violin, brought him wholly under the spell of the instruments.