Adjective: impactful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more impactful |
| Superlative | most impactful |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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, number 3, page 463:]
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“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:]
Adjectives inflected like impactful
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From impact + -ful.
Verbs referencing "impactful"
Dutch Adjectives
impactvol.