driving

1. 1.

   hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver

   “he sliced his drive out of bounds”

   Synonymsdrive

   Broadergolf stroke
2. 2.

   the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

   Broadertravelsteering

   Narrowermotoring

1. 1.

   having the power of driving or impelling

   “a driving personal ambition”

   “the driving force was his innate enthusiasm”

   “an impulsive force”

   Synonymsimpulsive

   Similardynamic
2. 2.

   acting with vigor

   “responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive”

   Similarenergetic

Other forms of driving

plural

drivings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about driving

What does driving mean?

driving means "hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in driving?

driving has 2 syllables: dri-ving. The stress falls on "dri". In IPA it is /ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/.

What is another word for driving?

Close synonyms include drive, impulsive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is driving a common word?

driving is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.