Commanding vs Stately - What's the difference?
commanding | stately | Synonyms |
Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
* , chapter=19
, title= Impressively dominant.
The act of giving a command.
* 2006 , William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions (page 172)
Of people: regal, dignified; worthy of respect.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
Of movement: dignified; deliberate, unhurried.
* 2010 , "An own goal on gay rights", The Economist , 14 Oct 2010:
Imposing; grand, impressive.
Commanding is a synonym of stately.
As adjectives the difference between commanding and stately
is that commanding is tending to give commands, authoritarian while stately is of people: regal, dignified; worthy of respect.As a verb commanding
is .As a noun commanding
is the act of giving a command.As an adverb stately is
in a stately manner.commanding
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- 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.
stately
English
Adjective
(er)- Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
- And much as they welcome his promise to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell”, they are dismayed by the stately pace and bungled tactics of his attempts to do so.
