guiding

1. 1.

   exerting control or influence

   “a guiding principle”

   Similarleading
2. 2.

   showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on

   “felt his mother's directing arm around him”

   “the directional role of science on industrial progress”

   Synonymsdirectingdirectionaldirective

   Similarleading

Other forms of guiding

comparative

guidinger·

superlative

guidingest·

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 guiding

What does guiding mean?

guiding means "exerting control or influence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guiding?

guiding has 2 syllables: gui-ding. The stress falls on "gui". In IPA it is /ˈɡaɪdɪŋ/.

What is another word for guiding?

Close synonyms include directing, directional, directive. 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 guiding a common word?

guiding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.