Difference between Influential and Authoritative

INFLUENTIAL vs AUTHORITATIVE: NOUN

Having or exercising influence.
Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency
Having or exerting influence.
Having or exercising influence or power

Sanctioned by established authority
Having authority or ascendancy or influence
Of recognized authority or excellence
Of acknowledged accuracy or excellence; highly reliable.
Demonstrating authority; commanding.
Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.
Arising or originating from a figure of authority
Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority
Having a commanding style.
Having or arising from authority; official.

Having or exerting power or influence; possessing or characterized by the possession of influence, or of power to influence: as, influential friends.

Synonyms Authoritative, Magisterial, etc. (see magisterial), commanding.
Having an air of authority; positive; peremptory; dictatorial.
Having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority; entitled to credence or obedience: as, “authoritative teaching,” Barrow.

Affluent, Vocal, Leading, Pivotal, Influencing, Seminal, Influence, Eminent, Prominent, Cogent, Potent, Prestigious, Important, Authoritative, Powerful

Relevant, Reputable, Credible, Respected, Trusted, Trustworthy, Accurate, Reliable, Authorized, Standard, Official, Classical, Important, Influential, Definitive

Impressive, Affluent, Vocal, Leading, Pivotal, Influencing, Seminal, Eminent, Prominent, Cogent, Potent, Prestigious, Important, Authoritative, Powerful

Relevant, Reputable, Credible, Respected, Trusted, Trustworthy, Accurate, Reliable, Authorized, Standard, Official, Classical, Important, Influential, Definitive

These studies and their findings were hugely influential.
Geometry is the most influential branch of mathematics.
These Influential People Part of the Early Church?
Though she came from a rich and influential family, Peggy married a man from an even richer and more influential family.
What I could say of the influential people of that town would be equally applicable to the influential people of Northfield.
Lastly, I test the sample of prior least influential analysts using the same regression models to see the persistency of influential analysts.
It is this that makes YWAM one of the more influential movements in our Christian world today, if not the most influential.
Interpersonal skills were as influential or more influential than clinical competence on patient satisfaction for three of the four disease categories.
More specifically, what is unduly influential to one subject might be merely influential to another.
That means, most influential analysts significantly outperform least influential analyst by almost two times, and their performance is stable.

No authoritative, comprehensive list exists of designated NSSEs.
AUTHORITATIVE FORCE OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS IN OTHER STATES.
Texas from reliable and authoritative providers of information.
Defines if an Item is deprecated or authoritative.
Congress and authoritative interpretation by the Supreme Court.
If the expert does not recognize the author of the published treatise to be authoritative, then the court may recognize the treatise as authoritative.
Are to comply with the guidance as though they are authoritative if no authoritative guidance exists in the area.
It came to mean an authoritative standard, and so the canon of Scripture is the collection of writings that are divinely authoritative.
Activity Authoritative Reference: Location of authoritative FM Standard Reference that supports the activity.
Our methodology works its way down from the most authoritative sources to the least authoritative sources.