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Majestic vs Commanding - What's the difference?

majestic | commanding | Related terms |

Majestic is a related term of commanding.


As adjectives the difference between majestic and commanding

is that majestic is having qualities of splendor or royalty 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.

majestic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having qualities of splendor or royalty.
    • Ye gods, it doth amaze me,
    A man of such a feeble temper should
    So get the start of the majestic world,
    And bear the palm alone.

    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.