Word Meanings - INFLUENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of

Additional info about word: INFLUENCE

Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of all things. Hooker. 2. Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs. Astrologers call the evil influences of the stars,evil aspects. Bacon. Cantsthou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion Job xxxviii. 31. She said : influence bad " Spenser. 3. Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community. Such influence hath your excellency. Sir P. Sidney.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFLUENCE)

• Actuate
• Urge
• instigate
• stir
• induce
• influence
• incline
• dispose
• incite
• impel
• prompt
• drive
• Affect
• Like
• desire
• favor
• seek
• assume
• move
• concern
• interest
• feign
• pretend
• Affection
• Influence
• condition
• state
• inclination
• bent
• mood
• humor
• feeling
• love
• propensity
• Agent
• Doer
• performer
• actor
• force
• means
• instrument
• cause
• promoter
• operator
• Ascendancy
• Superiority
• advantage
• mastery
• control
• supremacy
• sway
• domination
• authority

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INFLUENCE)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to INFLUENCE)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE