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commenting

commenting is the present participle and gerund of comment.

Meaning of comment

Verb

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

  1. (transitive) To remark.
    • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
    • He commented about your proposal.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To comment or remark on.
    • […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy
  4. (transitive) To insert comments into (source code).
    • I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
  5. (transitive) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

See all 9 meanings of comment

Noun

commenting (plural commentings)

  1. The making of a comment; commentary.
    • 1921?, E. F. Benson, Our Family Affairs
      That eager reverence was like a lover's adoration: his interpretations might be fanciful, and such as he would never have made in any other commentings, but here his search for hidden meanings in simple phrases had just that quality […]

Forms of commenting

pluralcommentings

Phrases with commenting

Questions about commenting

What does commenting mean?
Commenting means the making of a comment; commentary.
What is commenting the present participle and gerund of?
Commenting is the present participle and gerund of comment.
What part of speech is commenting?
Commenting is a noun.
What is the plural of commenting?
The plural of commenting is commentings.

Words near commenting in the dictionary

  1. commentatrix
  2. commented
  3. commented out
  4. commenter
  5. commenters
  6. commenting
  7. commenting out
  8. commentings
  9. commentitious
  10. commentize
  11. commentized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commenting (page history and authors); comment (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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