influential

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin īnfluentiālis, from īnfluentia + -ālis. By surface analysis, influence +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnfluˈɛnʃəl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnflʉˈenʃəl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌənflʉˈenʃəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnʃəl
• Hyphenation: in‧flu‧en‧tial

Adjective

influential (comparative more influential, superlative most influential)

1. Having or exerting influence.

   John Lennon was a very influential person in music, as well as in politics, fashion and general culture.

   Jane was very influential in getting the motion passed.

Synonyms

• swayful

Derived terms

• affluential
• influentiality
• influentially
• influentialness
• noninfluential
• overinfluential
• uninfluential

Translations

having considerable influence

Asturian: influyente Azerbaijani: nüfuzlu Belarusian: уплыво́вы (uplyvóvy) Bulgarian: влия́телен (bg) (vlijátelen) Chinese: Mandarin: 有影響 / 有影响 (yǒu yǐngxiǎng), 有影響力 / 有影响力 (yǒu yǐngxiǎnglì) Czech: vlivný (cs) m Danish: indflydelsesrig Dutch: invloedrijk (nl) Esperanto: influa Finnish: vaikutusvaltainen (fi) French: influent (fr) Galician: influente (gl) German: einflussreich (de) Greek: ισχυρός (el) (ischyrós), σημαίνων (el) m (simaínon) Hindi: प्रभावी (hi) (prabhāvī) Hungarian: befolyásos (hu) Indonesian: berpengaruh (id) Interlingua: influente Italian: autorevole (it) Latvian: ietekmīgs Macedonian: влијателен (vlijatelen) Malay: berpengaruh Maori: aweawe, whakaaweawe Ottoman Turkish: نفوذلو (nüfuzlu) Polish: wpływowy (pl) m Portuguese: influente (pt) Russian: влия́тельный (ru) (vlijátelʹnyj) Scottish Gaelic: cumhachdach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: утицајан Roman: uticajan (sh) Slovak: vplyvný Spanish: influyente (es), pudiente (es), influente, influencial Swedish: inflytelserik (sv) Tagalog: maimpluwensiya Turkish: nüfuzlu (tr) Ukrainian: впливо́вий (vplyvóvyj) Volapük: flunilabik

Noun

influential (plural influentials)

1. A person who has influence