What does commanding mean?
Commanding means Tending to give commands, authoritarian..
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/kəˈmændɪŋ/ · adjective
Tending to give commands, authoritarian..
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.
a commanding structure
a man with a commanding presence
Her colleagues say that [Dalia] Stasevska is eager to challenge the status quo both in the artistic realm and in life. Claire Chase, a prominent flutist and educator, described her as a “supernova,” praising her collaborative and commanding style.
Pierre Boulez, one of the most commanding musicians of the past century, must have been asked countless times, before his death in 2016, what he thought his legacy might be.
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.
Use commanding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Commanding means Tending to give commands, authoritarian..
Common synonyms include bossy, imposing, imperative, high.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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