Ruling Synonyms and Antonyms

ro͝olĭng
Having preeminent significance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ascendant
  2. dominant
  3. predominant
  4. prepotent
  5. prevailing
  6. regnant
  7. supreme
Antonyms:
  1. minor
  2. subsidiary
Decide on and make a declaration about
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ordering
  2. decreeing
  3. tyrannizing
  4. finding
  5. directing
  6. domineering
  7. dominating
  8. dictating
  9. bossing
To make a decision about (a controversy or dispute, for example) after deliberation, as in a court of law
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. umpiring
  2. refereeing
  3. judging
  4. determining
  5. decreeing
  6. deciding
  7. arbitrating
  8. adjudicating
  9. adjudging
Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. reigning
  2. prevailing
  3. predominating
  4. preponderating
  5. dominating
Exercise authority over; as of nations
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swaying
  2. reigning
  3. governing
To decide or declare authoritatively or judicially; decree:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. deciding

Words Related to Ruling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. law
  2. over
  3. important
  4. ecj
  5. landmark decision
  6. constitution
  7. extradition

Ruling Sentence Examples

  • I'm a member of the ruling pack.

  • He was now one of the most powerful sovereigns of Europe, for besides ruling over Provence and Anjou and the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, he was imperial vicar of Tuscany, lord of many cities of Lombardy and Piedmont, and as the pope's favourite practically arbiter of the papal states, especially during the interregnum between the death of Clement IV.

  • This ruling may be interpreted as part of a campaign directed against the counsellors of Alexander or as an instance of their general principle that intention is equivalent to commission in the eye of the Law.

  • Soon afterwards she poisoned Claudius and secured the throne for her son, with the intention of practically ruling on his behalf.

  • He then intervened in the suit pending between his father and mother before the parlement of Paris, and attacked the ruling powers so violently that he had to leave France and again go to Holland, and try to live by literary work.

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