dominating

  • (s) most powerful or important or influential
    • the economically ascendant class
    • D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe
    ascendant, ascendent,
  • (s) used of a height or viewpoint
    • a commanding view of the ocean
    • looked up at the castle dominating the countryside
    • the balcony overlooking the ballroom
    commanding, overlooking,
  • (s) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
    • an autocratic person
    • autocratic behavior
    • a bossy way of ordering others around
    • a rather aggressive and dominating character
    • managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
    • a swaggering peremptory manner
    autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, peremptory, magisterial,

Synonyms

ascendant ascendent commanding overlooking autocratic bossy high-and-mighty peremptory magisterial

Words of close approximity

domination