INFLUENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does influential mean? 

• INFLUENTIAL (adjective)
  The adjective INFLUENTIAL has 1 sense:

1. having or exercising influence or power

  Familiarity information: INFLUENTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFLUENTIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or exercising influence or power

Context example:

influential leadership for peace

Similar:

authoritative; important (having authority or ascendancy or influence)

potent; powerful (having great influence)

prestigious (exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige)

Antonym:

uninfluential (not influential)

Derivation:

influence (a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc)

influence (one having power to influence another)

influence (the effect of one thing (or person) on another)

 Context examples 

Nevertheless, the study sample was large and they were able to adjust for a wide range of potentially influential factors.

(Possible link found between sugary drinks, cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Contribute your ideas, get interviews with the press or with influential VIPs who are willing to entertain your proposal.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You have found in him an influential and kind friend, who will be kinder yet, I venture to predict, if you deserve it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This surprising result was obtained using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and suggests that dark matter was less influential in the early Universe than it is today.

(Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe, ESO)

The late George Gaylord Simpson, a geoscientist at UA and an influential evolutionary thinker of the last century, proposed that these fluctuating dependencies should determine the speed of evolution.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

A couple of decades later, French astronomer Charles Messier observed this patch of sky and also documented the nebulosity present there, recording the object as Messier 16 in his influential catalogue (eso0926).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

When the data were analysed by sex, the incidence of atrial fibrillation was lower among women than among men irrespective of intake, but the associations between higher chocolate intake and lower risk of heart flutter remained even after accounting for potentially influential factors.

(Eat Chocolate for Steady Heartbea, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A new moon is not influential for just a day, but for weeks and even months—all good news.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Also the Old Soldier, on a considerably reduced footing, and by no means so influential as in days of yore!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This trend will be rolled out at the full moon, Monday, March 9, in Pisces, influential over the weekend of March 7-8, or after the full moon for four days, until March 13.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)