Home › Words › T › taskmastertaskmaster/ˈtæskˌmæstɚ/taskmaster means someone who supervises workers, especially one who imposes hard or burdensome work.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, taskmaster ranks #1,120 of 42,762 for Qualifying.taskmaster is pronounced /ˈtæskˌmæstɚ/.EtymologyFrom task + master.nounSomeone who supervises workers, especially one who imposes hard or burdensome work.e.g.“And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows” — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:7:A source of hard work or responsibility.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.taskmasterly 75% match — Befitting a taskmaster. vs taskmaster →taskmastership 73% match — The role or status of taskmaster. vs taskmaster →taskmistress 64% match — A woman who assigns tasks; a female overseer. vs taskmaster →tasky 57% match — Resembling a task, arduous; (by extension) time-consuming, tiresome, stressful. vs taskmaster →gangmaster 56% match — A person who employs and directs large groups of (usually agricultural) manual labourers, especially those who are poorly paid and illegally employed. vs taskmaster →trackmaster 56% match — One who is in charge of a railroad track. vs taskmaster →tasking 56% match — A task; an assigned item of work. vs taskmaster →supervisor 56% match — A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities. vs taskmaster →