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commandingly

commandingly adverb: in a commanding fashion.

Adverb

commandingly (not comparable)

  1. In a commanding fashion.
    • And yet, somehow, did Ahab—in his own proper self, as daily, hourly, and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates,—Ahab seemed an independent lord […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • She could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed.1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930...

commandingly meaning in Urdu

commandingly in Urdu

آمرانہ, حاکمانہ

Examples of commandingly in a sentence

  • “Delightful idea,” said Lady Partridge. […] / “It is, I believe, an irresistible one,” said Lipscomb, laying his left hand commandingly on the table.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
  • “I ordered for the table,” she says, commandingly.2007 June 20, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Former First Couple mimics TV's former First Couple”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...

Origin of commandingly

From commanding + -ly.

Questions about commandingly

What does commandingly mean?
Commandingly means in a commanding fashion.
What is commandingly in Urdu?
Commandingly in Urdu is آمرانہ, حاکمانہ. See Commandingly meaning in Urdu.
How do you use commandingly in a sentence?
“Delightful idea,” said Lady Partridge. […] / “It is, I believe, an irresistible one,” said Lipscomb, laying his left hand commandingly on the table.
What part of speech is commandingly?
Commandingly is an adverb.

Words near commandingly in the dictionary

  1. commanding general
  2. commanding generals
  3. commanding heights
  4. commanding officer
  5. commanding officers
  6. commandingly
  7. commandingness
  8. commandings
  9. commandism
  10. commandist
  11. commandless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commandingly (page history and authors); commandingly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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