uninfluential

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adjective

Not influential; lacking influence.

Opposite
influential
OriginEnglish influential ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveuninfluential (comparative more uninfluential, superlative most uninfluential)

comparative more uninfluential · superlative most uninfluential

  1. Not influential; lacking influence.

    The most miserable of their species: depressed, doubtful, obscure; or involved in petty quarrels, and petty persecutions; often unappreciated, utterly uninfluential, beggars, flatterers of men, unworthy of their recognition.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Poet’s Midnight”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 57

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot influential

Opposite
influential

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishinfluential
  9. Englishuninfluential

From un- + influential.

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APA

uninfluential. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninfluential

MLA

“uninfluential.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninfluential. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uninfluential,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninfluential.

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