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- pronunciation:
- In
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
having authority or influence.
The wealthy newspaper publisher is a powerful and influential person in this city.His friends have been highly influential in his decisions.- synonyms:
- effective, potent, powerful
- similar words:
- effectual, forceful, important, instrumental, operative, persuasive, strong, substantial, weighty
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| related words: |
active, big, effective, potent, significant |
adverb + (adj.)influential
arguably, enormously, equally, extraordinarily, extremely, highly, hugely, immensely, increasingly, less, most, perhaps, politically, potentially, profoundly, tremendously, widely
(adj.)influential
+ noun
adviser,
advocacy,
advocate,
ally,
alumnus,
architect,
article,
artist,
banker,
book,
businessman,
circle,
cleric,
collector,
columnist,
conservative,
critic,
designer,
economist,
educator,
essay,
evangelical,
factor,
figure,
founder,
group,
intellectual,
journal,
journalist,
leader,
legislator,
lobbyist,
magazine,
member,
mentor,
newspaper,
organization,
painter,
philosopher,
policymaker,
politician,
publication,
role,
scholar,
supporter,
theologian,
theorist,
theory,
think,
thinker,
treatise,
tribe,
works,
writer
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| derivation: |
influentially (adv.) |
The word influential
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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