Synonyms of mastering

mastering

verb

present participle of master

1

as in overcoming

to achieve a victory over

finally mastered her longtime opponent at chess

Synonyms & Similar Words

• overcoming
• defeating
• conquering
• taking
• getting
• beating
• stopping
• dispatching
• subduing
• surmounting
• succeeding
• licking
• trimming
• prevailing (over)
• finishing
• upending
• winning (against)
• triumphing (over)
• besting
• overmatching
• getting the better of
• getting around
• worsting
• doing down
• overbearing
• burying
• crushing
• surpassing
• excelling
• slaughtering
• sweeping
• scoring
• overwhelming
• skunking
• exceeding
• whipping
• knocking for a loop
• routing
• flattening
• annihilating
• capping
• breaking
• edging (out)
• transcending
• subjugating
• upsetting
• creaming
• bombing
• topping
• blowing out
• vanquishing
• skinning
• flourishing
• nosing out
• clobbering
• overthrowing
• thrashing
• blowing away
• bettering
• waxing
• smoking
• outdoing
• trouncing
• pipping
• eclipsing
• outstripping
• overpowering
• outshining
• walloping
• knocking over
• drubbing
• shellacking
• unseating
• outdistancing
• knocking off
• snowing under
• acing (out)
• outfighting
• overtopping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing (to)
• falling
• going down
• failing
• giving up
• folding
• collapsing
• going under
• flunking
• washing out
• flopping

2

as in learning

to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in

I think I've mastered algebra at last

Synonyms & Similar Words

• learning
• getting
• understanding
• knowing
• discovering
• studying
• seeing
• grasping
• hearing
• comprehending
• memorizing
• picking up
• absorbing
• assimilating
• apprehending
• detecting
• digesting
• getting the hang of
• determining
• examining
• ascertaining
• tracking (down)
• drinking (in)
• hitting (on or upon)
• imbibing
• running down
• discerning
• tumbling (to)
• finding out
• searching (for)
• digging up
• unearthing
• majoring (in)
• descrying
• scaring up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• forgetting
• missing
• unlearning
• ignoring
• overlooking
• neglecting
• disregarding
• misunderstanding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mastering

There are a few outfit formulas worth mastering. —Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 17 June 2026

Grilling burgers is a rite of passage—mastering the art of cooking burgers to the right doneness can mark a new level of cooking confidence. —Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 June 2026

As of now, winning on the ground comes down to mastering masking transitions, managing stamina and your fighter's ground prowess. —Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026

Nilles was astonishing on her first-ever live performance of the song, somehow mastering its serpentine intricacies on top of the other 40 or so epics she’s absorbed. —Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026

Starship remains grounded by US regulators following a loss-of-control incident during a May test flight, and its ultimate success depends on major technical breakthroughs, such as mastering in-orbit refueling. —Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026

China Miéville is known for mastering new genres with each book, but this one is criminally underrated. —Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 12 June 2026

One of them is to raise the proportion of students mastering Math I – usually taken the freshman year of high school but also taken by some middle schoolers and older high school students. —Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 June 2026

Something that helped Minderman take the next step was mastering the change-up, according to junior catcher Alex Abraham. —Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026