Impactive vs Influential - What's the difference?
impactive | influential |
Of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact.
* 1880 , W. S. Barnard, "Protoplasmic Dynamics," The American Naturalist , vol. 14, no. 4, p. 237:
* 1970 , Kent Kirby, "Art, Technology and the Liberal Arts College," Art Journal , vol. 29, no. 3, p. 330:
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Having or exerting influence.
As adjectives the difference between impactive and influential
is that impactive is of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact while influential is having or exerting influence.As a noun influential is
a person who has influence.impactive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is necessary to distinguish all forces sharply into two groups: 1, the attractional'' (gravity, adhesion, cohesion, chemism), and 2, the ''impactive or momentum forces of masses, molecules and atoms.
- Along with this revolution has come another, quieter and more subtle, but perhaps more impactive and ultimately more dynamic in its potential for change.
An Intricate Bond; New Haven's past and future are so tied to Yale, but it took 300 years for the two to get along," New York Times , 18 Feb.:
- And in what may prove to be the most impactive development, the university is nurturing the nexus of science and business to create a biotechnology sector that has already brought millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs into town.
References
*"impactive" at OneLook® Dictionary Search . * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
influential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- John Lennon was a very influential person in music, as well as in politics, fashion and general culture.