say it: in-floo-EN-shuhl
influential is an adjective meaning "having or exercising influence or power". It carries one recorded sense.
having or exercising influence or power
“an influential newspaper”
“influential leadership for peace”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for influential come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.