Synonyms of impacting

impacting

verb

present participle of impact

1

as in affecting

to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response

the tragic loss of his father impacted the boy for the rest of his life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• affecting
• influencing
• impressing
• touching
• striking
• reaching
• interesting
• swaying
• involving
• inspiring
• telling (on)
• moving
• bothering
• getting to
• concerning
• attracting
• fascinating
• disturbing
• plaguing
• penetrating
• worrying
• dazzling
• carrying away
• transporting
• biasing
• troubling
• afflicting
• ravishing
• upsetting
• engaging
• stirring
• harassing
• distressing
• trying
• enchanting
• perturbing
• stressing
• entrancing
• piercing
• coloring
• disquieting
• enrapturing
• captivating
• smiting
• charming
• pestering
• enthralling
• agitating
• discomforting
• wringing
• bewitching
• alluring
• flustering
• harrying
• discomposing
• straining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• boring
• tiring
• wearying
• palling
• jading
• underwhelming

2

as in colliding

to come into usually forceful contact with something

the damage sustained when a car going 40 miles an hour impacts with a brick wall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• colliding
• bumping
• slamming
• banging
• crashing
• smashing
• hitting
• ramming
• knocking
• impinging
• thudding
• striking
• bashing
• swiping
• bouncing
• glancing
• contacting
• scraping
• touching
• skipping
• pushing
• sweeping
• rebounding
• ricocheting
• brushing
• landing
• grazing
• kissing
• skimming
• nudging
• shaving
• caroming
• jostling
• clunking
• pressing
• bulldozing
• muscling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• skirting

3

as in embedding

to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter

the bullet was found impacted in the police officer's protective vest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• embedding
• rooting
• lodging
• entrenching
• putting
• implanting
• fixing
• placing
• bedding
• ingraining
• establishing
• infusing
• enrooting
• imbuing
• sticking
• instilling
• driving (into)
• beating (into)
• settling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• eliminating
• eradicating
• rooting (out)
• dislodging
• uprooting
• removing
• expelling
• ejecting
• disconnecting
• detaching
• disengaging

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of impacting

Maybe the weight of chasing the record was impacting the elite striker? —Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026

For all its products, Klarna performs a soft credit inquiry to assess creditworthiness without impacting credit scores. —Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 22 June 2026

The fire is still actively producing smoke and impacting air quality throughout the region, the South Coast Air Quality Management District said in a statement Sunday — extending its particle pollution advisory into Monday morning. —Adela Suliman, NBC news, 22 June 2026

Light winds will also push the smoke in all directions, potentially impacting other parts of metropolitan LA, the district said. —ABC News, 22 June 2026

But prices haven’t spiked nearly as much during the war in Iran, despite the conflict impacting 14% of global supply. —Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 22 June 2026

Smoke from a large warehouse fire in Los Angeles that’s spurred a state of emergency is forecasted to continue impacting a swath of the region into Tuesday, June 23. —Paris Barraza, USA Today, 22 June 2026

The growth of data centers is impacting four-year institutions like Indiana University Northwest, as well. —Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026

This is because hot sunny conditions also aid the formation of super pollutants, like tropospheric zone, black carbon and methane, which pollute the air, causing impacting human health and damage to crops. —Jamie Hailstone, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026