English

Verb

commanding

1. present participle of command

Adjective

commanding ‎(comparative more commanding, superlative most commanding)

1. Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.

2. Impressively dominant.

   a commanding structure‎

Synonyms

• (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing
• See also Wikisaurus:bossy

Translations

Noun

commanding ‎(plural commandings)

1. The act of giving a command.
   • 2006, William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions (page 172)

     God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.