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uninfluential

uninfluential

6.3
Not able to change other people's ideas or actions
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnɪnˈfluːənʃəl/
translation icon : sin influencia
  • Despite many attempts to be heard, her opinions remained uninfluential in the decision-making process.

Examples

  • This, coupled with the varied foci on learning outcomes reported by trainers and the specter of seemingly uninfluential training policy providing little guidance, enlivens some questions with respect to the degree of overall alignment of training practices and consistency of outcomes within the study context.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The efforts of poets to come to terms with industry in the nineteenth century are unmemorable; that is to say, hard to learn and uninfluential in image forming.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Internationally, one can imagine two small, equally sovereign states: one a "holder of the balance" arbitrating great powers' contests; the other uninfluential and buffered in the world economy.

    Academic text (1995)
  • This was wholly understandable, since in 1959 the Soviet Union's interests in the Latin American region were confined to a few trading companies and a score of local Communist parties, most of which were small and uninfluential (though not, as it happened, in Cuba).

    Academic text (1994)
  • He felt his voice was uninfluential during the meeting, as no one seemed to pay attention to his ideas.

  • The committee's recommendations were largely uninfluential, having little impact on the final policy changes.

Synonyms

unimportant
vsuninfluential
54 1.9

Not worth attention or notice

mainly signals inability to change people's attitudes or real outcomes
inconsequential
vsuninfluential
29 7.7

Not important and not likely to make a difference

focuses on lack of power to alter people or events rather than insignificance
immaterial
vsuninfluential
19 7.2

Not important or relevant to a situation

refers to inability to change people or situations rather than being irrelevant
ineffectual
vsuninfluential
18 6.8

Not able to produce the result wanted

applies when someone cannot change people or events rather than general failure
unpersuasive
vsuninfluential
2 6.5

Not able to make someone believe or agree

can also fail to change people's choices or situational outcomes
ignorable
vsuninfluential
1 5.6

Not important and safe to leave out

describes lack of power to affect people or situations rather than dismissibility

Antonyms

189 4.6

Able to change what people think or do

How Influential

powerful
3.0
influential
189 4.6
uninfluential
6.3
insignificant
104 4.1

Surface Forms

uninfluential positive
uninfluentialer comparative
uninfluentialest superlative

Morphology

uninfluential = influential (transparent) = un + influence + ial

The negative prefix 'un-' straightforwardly negates the adjective 'influential', producing 'not influential'.

Etymology

The word uninfluential is built from un- meaning 'not' and influence, a word that originally suggested a 'flow' or power that moves into people or places, like water moving in. So uninfluential means 'not able to affect others' or having little power to change things.