commanding

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈmændɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: com‧mand‧ing

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

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.