Difference between Influential and Important

INFLUENTIAL vs IMPORTANT: NOUN

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

Of great significance or value
Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position
Having authority or ascendancy or influence
Important in effect or meaning
Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant.
Having high social rank or influence; prominent.
Importunate.
Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
Bearing on; forcible; driving.
Importunate; pressing; urgent.
Having relevant and crucial value.

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

Vital to the resolution of a crisis
Of extreme importance
[Appar. confused with importunate. Cf. importunate, 1.] Importunate; eager; pressing.
Consequential; pretentious; pompous: as, an important manner.
Of much import; bearing weight or consequence; momentous; grave; significant.

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

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

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

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

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.

It is also important that we hear MPs.
Africa play an important role in human diseases.
What other tests are important with this disease?
Use emphasis sparingly, for your most important info.
All very important factors again in analyzing precedent.
It is important that procedures are followed, but it is also important that it can be shown and proved that procedures were followed.
It is important to look at your objectives for your retirement years to determine if it is important to protect your assets.
The President is important to the extent that the federal government is important.
Students illustrate an important event in the book and then explain in writing what took place and why it was important.
Building regulations have an important role to play, but we should not forget the important role of planning.