Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Indirect Power

Influence

Nouns
  • influence
  • importance etc. Importance
  • weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway
  • predominance, predominancy
  • ascendency
  • dominance, reign
  • control, domination, pull [Slang]
  • authority etc. Authority
  • capability etc. (power) Power
  • effect etc. [Constant sequent.] Effect
  • interest. synergy (cooperation) Cooperation. footing
  • purchase etc. (support) Support
  • play, leverage, vantage ground. tower of strength, host in himself
  • protection, patronage, auspices.
Verbs
  • have influence etc. n.
  • be influential etc. adj.
  • carry weight, weigh, tell
  • have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon
  • take root, take hold
  • strike root in. run through, pervade
  • prevail, dominate, predominate
  • out weigh, over weigh
  • over-ride, over-bear
  • gain head
  • rage
  • be rife etc. adj.
  • spread like wildfire
  • have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play. be recognized, be listened to
  • make one's voice heard, gain a hearing
  • play a part, play a leading part, play a leading part in
  • take the lead, pull the strings
  • turn the scale, throw one's weight into the scale
  • set the fashion, lead the dance.
Adjectives
  • influential, effective
  • important etc. Importance
  • weighty
  • prevailing etc. v.
  • prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical.
Adverbs
  • with telling effect.

Absence of Influence

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Tendency

Nouns
  • tendency
  • aptness, aptitude
  • proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility
  • liability etc. Liability
  • quality, nature, temperament
  • idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy
  • cast, vein, grain
  • humor, mood
  • drift etc. (direction) Direction
  • conduciveness, conducement
  • applicability etc. (utility) Utility
  • subservience etc. (instrumentality) Instrumentality.
Verbs
  • tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards
  • promote etc. (aid) Aid.
Adjectives
  • tending etc. v.
  • conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to
  • liable etc. Liability
  • subservient etc. (instrumental) Instrumentality
  • useful etc. Utility
  • subsidiary etc. (helping) Aid.
Adverbs
  • for, whither.

Liability

Nouns
  • liability, liableness
  • possibility, contingency
  • susceptivity, susceptibility, exposure.
Verbs
  • be liable etc. adj.
  • incur, lay oneself open to
  • run the chance, stand a chance
  • lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to.
Adjectives
  • liable, subject
  • in danger etc. Danger
  • open to, exposed to, obnoxious to
  • answerable
  • unexempt from
  • apt to
  • dependent on
  • incident to. contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of.