influential

[in-floo-en-shuhl] / ˌɪn fluˈɛn ʃəl /

ADJECTIVE

effective, powerful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

authoritative dominant famous important leading persuasive prominent significant strong

WEAK

affecting big-gun big-wheel controlling efficacious forcible governing guiding impressive inspiring instrumental major-league meaningful momentous moving name potent substantial telling touching weighty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inconspicuous inferior insignificant obscure subordinate trivial unimportant unknown

WEAK

ineffective ineffectual uninfluential unmoving weak

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Maybe it is natural, then, that a big swath of the most influential podcasters have come forward to offer a solution to those executives’ problems.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026

Raul Castro remains an influential figure, with Diaz-Canel himself acknowledging that the "historical leader of the revolution" was guiding the US talks.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Last year, the host of the influential War Room podcast asked the Supreme Court to take up his case again, after losing in the lower courts.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

This year, the influential retail cohort is taking a much more cautious approach as the war in Iran upends markets around the world.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

The Aristotelian view of physics, as wrong as it was, was so influential that for more than a millennium it eclipsed all opposing views, including more realistic ones.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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