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

Lean In is focused on how this content is impacting the real-world workplace. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

The case is the latest example of courts intervening to fix platform imbalances impacting politics and elections. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026

However, bright light bleaches that chemical, negatively impacting your night vision. — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026

That includes higher costs for logistics and dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, chips that are impacting multiple industries. — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026

Reports of supply constraints impacting the latest iPhone model have been bubbling for some time. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2026

Broad concern has grown about how autonomous systems, including robotaxis, delivery robots, and AI agents, are impacting jobs, especially for lower-skill workers. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2026

His exit, which was confirmed by the streamer, is part of the major layoffs at Netflix today that are impacting 1,000 people. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026

It’s kept the Eastern Shore mostly unscathed by hurricanes but is severely impacting Baltimore’s freshwater supply. — Luke Parker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Oct. 2026