virtuoso

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsconsummatemasterfulmasterly

   Similarskilled

Other forms of virtuoso

plural

virtuosi

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about virtuoso

What does virtuoso mean?

virtuoso means "someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in virtuoso?

virtuoso has 4 syllables: vir-tu-o-so. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /vɚtʃuˈoʊsoʊ/.

What is another word for virtuoso?

Close synonyms include ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is virtuoso a common word?

virtuoso is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.