influential

Modifying Another Word

• hugely: Next month we'll look at a group of hugely influential theorists loosely called the Humanists.
• enormously: Suffice it to say that they were enormously influential.
• immensely: It has been immensely influential and reprinted many times.
• highly: Both of these sides were heavily armed with highly influential senior military figures within the governments.
• massively: Dave and John have been massively influential over the years in their meticulous research and presentation of many folk events.
• enduringly: Rightly or wrongly, this comment has been enduringly influential.

Modifies a noun

• thinker: The New Being by Paul Tillich Paul Tillich is generally considered one of the century's outstanding and influential thinkers.
• midfielder: The influential midfielder made an instant impact, drawing a good save from John with his second touch of the game.
• figure: There he remained an influential figure for a short time.
• philosopher: With Karl Popper, who died in 1994, Thomas Kuhn was the most influential philosopher of science in the twentieth century.
• critic: The Wine Advocate is Robert Parker, the world's most influential wine critic.
• theorist: Next month we'll look at a group of hugely influential theorists loosely called the Humanists.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: This is not directly binding on the UK Courts, but may prove influential if the UK law is reviewed.
• become: Graham Kavanagh had started to become more influential, pulling the strings in the middle of Cardiff's midfield.
• remain: He remains highly influential still seven years after his death.

Preposition: in

• circle: Demos An independent think-tank and research institute, influential in government circles.
• movement: Britton was influential in the movement to preserve ancient monuments.
• creation: The boycott was influential in the creation of Britain's first Race Relations Act in 1965.
• development: Sites in Newcastle which were influential in the development of taste whether through reputation or references in literature.
• debate: INTERNATIONAL PROFILE As the largest professional accountancy body in Europe, the Institute has been influential in the international debate in its own right.