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Impactful is not a word?

It’s highly dubious that “impactful” is not a word. There are no results on google for a definition search on impactful.

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Sparx
17 years ago

We already had this conversation – it’s in webster’s, and Eliana was kind enough to post the link. 🙂

srhbth
srhbth
17 years ago

I still don’t believe in it. In any case it’s awkward and I know there are better, more precise ways of saying what it supposedly means. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/impactful.html <– I love this site for double-checking tricky English things! It’s the first result on the Google search linked above.

unlikelymoose
17 years ago

i bet impactfullingly isn’t in any dictionary or anywhere on goo machine. It is my hope that this page gets indexed for impactfullingly.

Simply-Love
Simply-Love
16 years ago
Hap
Hap
16 years ago

Impactful is NOT a word. It has pervaded the english language since the late 50’s-early 60’s. It can be found in pseudo-dictionaries. Its use is a linguistic tragedy, much like ‘irregardless.’

Sparx
16 years ago

HAP – I found your comment to be very impactful. Thank you!

srhbth
srhbth
16 years ago

HAP, we are best friends now, k?