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Etymology

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From virtuoso +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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virtuosic (comparative more virtuosic, superlative most virtuosic)

  1. (music) requiring a high level of technical skill.
  2. impressive and sometimes flamboyant.
    • 2016, Jonathan Safran Foer, chapter 5, in Here I Am:
      The older cousins were surrounding Barak as he performed virtuosic acts of extreme violence on a TV so large one had to sit against the opposite wall to see its edges.

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