MASTERPIECE Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

masterpiece

noun

ˈma-stər-ˌpēs

as in classic

something (as a work of art) that is a great achievement and often its creator's greatest achievement Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are often considered to be his masterpieces

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Recent Examples of masterpiece Gape at artistic masterpieces at the Museo e Bosco Reale di Capodimonte. —

Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024 Phan Huy is an independent designer from Vietnam who creates garments the way a sculptor would a masterpiece. —

Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 The show has a tall task to match the book, which is a journalistic masterpiece from one of the best non-fiction writers alive, Patrick Radden Keefe. —

Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024 The classic examples are modernist masterpieces like Ulysses, in which James Joyce dilates a day to 732 pages and switches stylistic conceits with each chapter, and Mrs. Dalloway, rooted in the interiority of Virginia Woolf’s protagonist. —

Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for masterpiece