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influentially

influentially

6.0
In a way that makes people change their ideas or actions
  • adverb
  • /ˌɪnfluˈɛnʃəli/
translation icon : de manera influyente
  • The documentary was influentially praised for shedding light on social issues and inspiring change.
  • the most influentially

Examples

  • Her speech was influentially received by the young voters, swaying many to support her campaign.

  • My goal is to offer a different reading of Young in which I make the case for his position as an early Counter-Enlightenment figure who influentially challenged Enlightenment assumptions about religion, metaphysics, theology, and aesthetics.

    Academic text (2016)
  • More importantly: In the relationship between Huck and the slave Jim, he came early, unforgettably, and influentially to that central fact of American life: racism.

    Blog text (17)
  • As we have seen, the Bhore Committee in 1946 influentially endorsed this primacy within a system of de facto pluralism.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Either way, by prioritizing a website's attractiveness and democratic usefulness, it is likely to become wider, more carefully, and more influentially read than it would be if we doubled the amount of time we spent on street corners.

    Blog text (1)
  • This approach was signaled and opened up influentially by Jacques Le Goff's Birth of Purgatory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984; French, 1981).

    Academic text (2002)
  • This contempt for mass culture, expressed most powerfully and influentially by Horkheimer and Adorno in "The Culture Industry," has become a standard object of attack for practitioners of postmodern cultural studies.

    Academic text (1998)
  • And most influentially, Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, in their Black Power, used the language to describe the relationship of the Black ghetto to American society, characterizing it as internal "colonialism."

    Academic text (2011)
  • The first, fostered so influentially by Cathy Caruth in the early 1990s, is oriented by questions of trauma as a structure of experience, and of its transmissibility and representation in narrative and literature.

    Academic text (2016)
  • In discussing the problem of representing the Holocaust, Saul Friedlander has influentially argued that "there are limits to representation which should not be but can easily be transgressed" (1992:3).

    Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

powerfully
vsinfluentially
34 3.6

In a very strong and forceful way

aims at affecting others' actions or opinions rather than sheer force
potently
vsinfluentially
1 5.4

In a way that has a strong effect on people or things

focuses on changing people's actions or opinions rather than general effects

Antonyms

In a way that is not important and not easily noticed

How Influential

influentially
6.0
decisively
29 3.7
strongly
638 1.0
weakly
35 1.0

Surface Forms

influentially positive

Morphology

influentially = influential (transparent) = influence + ial + ly

Standard adverb formation from the adjective 'influential' (influence -> influential -> influentially); the meaning 'in a manner that has influence' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Influentially comes from Latin parts in- ('into') and fluere ('to flow'), the same root as the English word fluid. So, to act influentially is like letting ideas or power 'flow into' other people and change what they think or do.