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impactful

/ˈɪmpæktfəl/

impactful adjective: having impact.

Adjective

impactful (comparative more impactful, superlative most impactful)

  1. Having impact.
    • We might suppose that some of the most impactful heroines of current films would combine these two functions: that of the good-bad girl ...1950, Movies: A Psychological Study, Digitized edition, Free Press, published 2008, page 22
    • It is strongly recommended that in the future such investigations not be reported in the literature unless they are designed to test the effects of some hopefully impactful treatment variation.1969, W. James Popham, “Curriculum Materials”, in Review of Educational Research, volume 39, number 3, page 321

Examples of impactful in a sentence

  • Everyone knows that vividly presented information is impactful and persuasive.1982, S. E. Taylor, S. C. Thompson, “Stalking the Elusive 'Vividness' Effect”, in Psychological Bulletin, volume 89, number 2, page 155:
  • A dominant finding in psychology and consumer behavior has been that negative information is more impactful than positive information.2001, A. Mukherjee, W. D. Hoyer, “The Effect of Novel Attributes on Product Evaluation”, in The Journal of Consumer Research, volume 28...
  • “The evening will help to raise money to create a place where children can have fun and enjoy playing for years to come; a fitting legacy of a short-lived but impactful life."2013 March 22, “Pals organise night out to remember Florence”, in West Sussex Gazette:

Synonyms of impactful

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All synonyms and antonyms of impactful

Forms of impactful

comparativemore impactful
superlativemost impactful

Origin of impactful

From impact + -ful.

Words formed from impactful

Questions about impactful

What does impactful mean?
Impactful means having impact.
How do you use impactful in a sentence?
Everyone knows that vividly presented information is impactful and persuasive.
What part of speech is impactful?
Impactful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce impactful?
Impactful is pronounced /ˈɪmpæktfəl/.

Words near impactful in the dictionary

  1. impactable
  2. impacted
  3. impactedness
  4. impacter
  5. impacters
  6. impactful
  7. impactfully
  8. impactfulness
  9. impacting
  10. impaction
  11. impactions

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