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

Because those highly competitive spaces tend to be spaces that end up impacting the rest of the world. — David Katz, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

The slate includes a game in Germany, Spain and France — giving fans more European choices and possibly impacting London demand. — Ken Maguire, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

This caused significant damage to the plane, and all four of its hydraulic lines were severed, directly impacting the aircraft’s controllability. — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026

This restriction is impacting her upcoming Wyoming and Montana shows. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Another complicating factor is that whatever is impacting recent college graduates also seems to be affecting young people who don’t have a degree. — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

More than 7,500 homes across Nepal have been affected by the catastrophic flooding in the country, impacting nearly 33,000 people, the Nepali Foreign Ministry said in an update today. — Kosh Raj Koirala, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026

With the industry's current pace of innovation, leveraging AI and IoT is bringing within reach the ability to solve critical challenges impacting people's quality of life and sustainability. — Alper Yegin, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Eala is the only player impacting ticket pricing to this extent (+96%)—no other session’s price increased even 25% directly following a scheduling announcement. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 1 Sep. 2026