dominating

Adjective
  1. Most powerful or important or influential (synset 300795186)
    "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
    similar to: dominant - exercising influence or control
    same as: ascendant, ascendent
  2. Used of a height or viewpoint (synset 301207904)
    "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
    similar to: high - (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high')
    same as: commanding, overlooking
  3. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power (synset 300791150)
    "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"
    similar to: domineering - tending to domineer
    same as: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory

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