Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. proscribed Having impact.
Etymologies
- From impact + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“See, though I hate how lazy our society has become with language - "impactful" is NOT a word people, despite its use by Corporate America, and "Yea" is NOT spelled Y-A-Y, good God don't get me started - I am still in need every now and then of a review of the basics.”
“To make the execution of the idea impactful and challenging, the demonstration has to be taken as far as it can go by showing that even the worst individuals can become good people by donating their organs.”
“You could trip over it, and that would be "impactful," a word I always trip over because I get nauseous just thinking about it.”
The Huffington Post: Lee Schneider: The Problem with Living Pure
“Stadum was "impactful," all right, helping Neil Goldschmidt and Peter Kohler nearly bankrupt both OHSU and the City of Portland.”
“Point out that the meeting you're heading for isn't immediately "impactful" on you but if it's important to your superior that you're there, you'll put off finishing the assigned task until later.”
“You won't find "impactful" in the OED, not yet, anyway, and it's a descriptive dictionary.”
“(God, I hate the word "impactful," but it was a buzz word for us.)”
“I first heard "impactful" in the early 80s in a management seminar.”
“I had a boss in advertising years ago, who said that empathy was the key to creating relevant, "impactful" ads.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘impactful’.
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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New and Unholy Coinage
21st century coinage. Any strange words you`ve seen on TV or heard from irritating young people.
hateration, holleration, chillax, weaksauce, pimpin', hella, meme, blamin, propagandhi, jazzercise, blog, social lubricant and 58 more...
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Dumbisms
Words and phrases I don't like. They are dumb.
re-look, good to go, reinvent the wheel, do what, ducks in a row, re-up, twofer, irregardless, repurpose, ballyhoo, bells and whistles, webinar and 55 more...
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Cringeworthy Words and Phrases Encoun...
Don't get me wrong: I like my job. I like everyone I work with too, but not all of them are word lovers, and many of them abuse the language in ways that hurt me. I'm stashing them here so that p...
architected, beveraged, on the same sheet..., moving forward, incent, utilize, its', needless to say, right behind left..., brand equity, throughput, impactful and 7 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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BINGO!
Entries from the corporate hall of shame. (There are many wordie versions of this list - please link to yours in the comments section - thanks!)
to architect, to incentivize, drill down, loop back, low-hanging fruit, pre-plan, customer-focused, best of brand, conversate, think outside the..., paradigm shift, going forward and 99 more...
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Abominations
"Words" or expressions that should be extirpated from the language.
cremains, synergy, impactful, irregardless, utilize, truthiness, senior moment, orientate, pre-owned, ginormous, natch, copacetic and 6 more...
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I'm Struggling
A list of examples of writing that I'm struggling to like, usually due to poor wording, unclear intention, weasel quality or stylistic failure.
Edit: Now with dicky diction too!funding exclusion, impactful, dispersed, pornify, squinkered, uticated, sherpa, redistributive, wittol, redistricting, unconference, storaging and 29 more...
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avoid at all costs
words that destroy meaning
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nathan's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for impactful.
zeke If wordnik had a "hate" button, I'd use it on this word. Feb 23, 2012
reesetee It always makes me think of hurling. Mar 5, 2009
rolig This word always makes me think of car crashes. Mar 5, 2009
bilby "During 2009 FYA is reviewing its grant-making to develop new, even more impactful opportunities & increase our ability to support young people in Australia."
- fya.org.au, cited 5 March 2009. Mar 5, 2009
rolig influential, effective, powerful, indelible, memorable – so many good, resonant words will do just as well. Jul 30, 2008