influential
- adjective
- /ˌɪnfluˈɛnʃəl/
- One of the best and most influential broadcasters of all time has died.
- highly influential
- most influential
- enormously influential
You know, like the best, the most influential people stand for something.
- You know, like the best, the most influential people stand for something.
- So you would like to find people who are influential and it's hard to do.
- I take responsibility as being the most influential designer.
- And that again has come to be very influential in our politics today.
- Widely regarded as one of the most influential doctors in the UK.
- He has been massively influential in history itself.
- I'm a firm believer in the influential power of a woman.
- One of the best and most influential broadcasters of all time has died.
- For a country that is the most affluent and influential, that is a catastrophe.
- And so he's hugely influential for Western civilization, all this.
- For wealth, fathers are much, much more influential than mothers.
- OK, The biggest thing that makes me influential is the trust that they have in me.
- I've I've made a very good friend with someone who's very influential in the speaking world.
Examples
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She was recognized as one of the most influential scientists of her time.
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Yeah, this is a really influential book, super famous.
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You know, like the best, the most influential people stand for something.
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So you would like to find people who are influential and it's hard to do.
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And that again has come to be very influential in our politics today.
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For the next six or seven years, he was the most influential person in my life.
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Before the Great Disaster, they were quite an influential company.
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In this world, Japan has become a kind of network nation and a very influential international power.
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I think he was the single most influential senator during the Biden years.
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Name one of the most influential presidents of the 20th century.
Synonyms
A person or thing that matters a lot
Important and having a strong effect
Having great influence over people and events
Important and powerful in a field or group
Having more power or influence than others in a group
A substance that has a strong effect even in small amounts
Having a strong effect on people or things
Having a strong effect on people or situations
Antonyms
Compounds
How Influential
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Influential comes from Latin parts in- and fluere, meaning 'into' and 'to flow', the same idea you see in the English word flow. So a person or thing that is influential is like a strong stream of ideas or power that 'flows into' people or decisions and changes them.