Word Meanings - INFLUENTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc. A very influential Gascon prefix. Earle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFLUENTIAL)

• Cogent
• Forcible
• powerful
• potent
• strong
• persuasive
• influential
• Important
• Significant
• expressive
• relevant
• main
• leading
• considerable
• great
• dignified
• weighty
• momentous
• material
• grave
• essential
• Prevailing
• Controlling
• ruling
• operative
• predominant
• prevalent
• rife
• ascendant
• most general
• most common
• Strong
• Powerful
• vigorous
• solid
• secure
• fortified
• forcible
• impetuous
• hale
• hearty
• brawny
• sinewy
• sound
• robust
• cogent
• zealous
• pungent muscular
• hardy
• stanch
• tenacious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INFLUENTIAL)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to INFLUENTIAL)

• FORTIFIABLE
  Capable of being fortified. Johnson.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• STANCH
  akin to Pr., Sp., & Pg. estancar, It. stancare to weary, LL. stancare, stagnare, to stanch, fr. L. stagnare to be or make 1. To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. Iron or a stone
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• STANCHLESS
  1. Incapable of being stanched, or stopped. 2. Unquenchable; insatiable. Shak.
• ZEALOUS
  1. Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object. He may be zealous in the salvation of souls. Law. 2. Filled with religious zeal. Shak. -- Zeal"ous*ly, adv. -- Zeal"ous*ness, n.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• PREVALENTLY
  In a prevalent manner. Prior.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• PREDOMINANT
  Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• FERULIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
• CHONDRULE
  A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power