Word Meanings - COMMANDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.

Additional info about word: COMMANDING

1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. -- Authoritative; imperative; imperious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMANDING)

• Authoritative
• Decisive
• sure
• conclusive
• authentic
• powerful
• firm
• potent
• dictatorial
• imperious
• arbitrary
• arrogant
• imperative
• dogmatic
• commanding
• Imposing
• Striking
• effective
• dignified
• grand
• impressive
• majestic
• august

Related words: (words related to COMMANDING)

• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• DECISIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• AUTHENTIC
  Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested. (more info) L. authenticus coming from the real author, of original or firsthand authority, from Gr. sons and perh. orig. from the p. pr. of to be, root as, and meaning the one it really is.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.