dominating
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(s) most powerful or important or influential
- the economically ascendant class
- D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe
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(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
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(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