uninfluential
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈfluːənʃəl/
- Despite many attempts to be heard, her opinions remained uninfluential in the decision-making process.
Examples
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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.
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The committee's recommendations were largely uninfluential, having little impact on the final policy changes.
Synonyms
Not worth attention or notice
Not important and not likely to make a difference
Not important or relevant to a situation
Not able to produce the result wanted
Not able to make someone believe or agree
Not important and safe to leave out
Antonyms
How Influential
Surface Forms
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.