governing
modif.
commanding, administrative, executive, authoritative, supervisory, regulatory, controlling, directing, restraining, superintending, surveillant, overseeing, tyrannizing, dictatorial, arbitrary, conducting, guiding, mastering, potent, dominating, dominant, magisterial, determining, ascendant, in the ascendant, ordering, compulsive, supreme, influential, gubernatorial, presidential, regal, absolute, ruling, checking, curbing, inhibiting, limiting, confining.
Antonyms subordinate, powerless, tributary.