influential
[adjective]
Synonyms: important, authoritative, instrumental, leading, potent, powerful, significant, telling, weighty

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English Thesaurus: powerful, influential, strong, dominan

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

in‧flu‧en‧tial /ˌɪnfluˈenʃəl◂/ adjective
having a lot of influence and therefore changing the way people think and behave:
He had influential friends.
influential in
Dewey was influential in shaping economic policy.
a highly influential art magazine

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

influential
adj.
VERBS be, prove | become
ADV. deeply, enormously, especially, extraordinarily, extremely, highly, hugely, immensely, particularly, really, very This was a highly influential work. As a writer she was hugely influential.
increasingly | fairly, quite | widely | politically
PREP. in The group was influential in setting up the new schools.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

powerful a powerful person, organization, group etc is able to control and influence events and other people’s actions:
the world’s most powerful nation
Parliament had become more powerful than the King.
a powerful political family
influential having a lot of power to influence what happens, because people pay attention to what you say:
a highly influential fashion designer
He’s one of the most influential figures in international politics.
strong powerful – used about people or groups in politics who have a lot of supporters:
The communists were particularly strong in the big industrial cities.
He is a strong voice in the state assembly.
dominant more powerful than other people, groups, countries etc:
She was the dominant force in women’s tennis for many years.
The company has a dominant position in the market.

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