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Formidable vs Commanding - What's the difference?

formidable | commanding |

As adjectives the difference between formidable and commanding

is that formidable is causing fear, dread, awe or admiration as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive quality; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment while commanding is tending to give commands, authoritarian.

As a verb commanding is

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As a noun commanding is

the act of giving a command.

formidable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • causing fear, dread, awe or admiration as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive quality; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment
  • difficult to defeat or overcome
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=John Percy , title=Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report , work=the Telegraph citation , page= , passage=Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable .}}

    commanding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Impressively dominant.

    • Synonyms

    * (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.