Vocabulary
Influential
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having great influence on someone or something.
Urdu meaning
اثر و رسوخ، طاقت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Experts claim that the pillage can be attributed to a strong nexus between smuggling networks and influential quarters, ignorance among rural communities and tribal hostilities.
- Moreover, an `influential` lobby among the powerful bars have also become staunch votaries of hybridity.
- The tragedyis that local stakeholders, including the majority of the then elected members from Fata and influential elders and youth residing there, had highlighted these impracticalities that today the government is perplexed by.
- There have been some rumblings about the impatience of influential quarters to see a political compromise being worked out.
- The Quran tolerates neither elitism nor secret cliques of the influential.
Synonyms
powerful, authoritative, dominant, controlling, strong; important
Antonyms
unimportant, insignificant
Curator example
“her work is influential in feminist psychology”
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