Synonyms for commanding

leading, directing, controlling, steering, guiding, determining, ordering, charging, ruling, enjoining, decreeing, instructing, dictating, forbidding, issuing, dominating, overruling, compelling, managing, checking, curbing, forcing, coercing, requiring, restraining, having dominion over, being in command, being in authority, regulating; see also command 2, government 1.

Antonyms obeying, yielding*, submitting.