influential person vs high-up

high-up vs influential person

influential person and high-up both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
influential person	Yes	No	No	No
high-up	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, high-up is a hyponym of influential person; that is, high-up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than influential person:

influential person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
high-up: an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

Other hyponyms of influential person include big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho, celebrity, famous person, behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan, elder statesman, eminence grise, Excellency, fixer, influence peddler, heavy hitter, hierarch, high-muck-a-muck, pooh-bah, kingmaker, bigwig, kingpin, top banana, magnifico, figure, name, public figure, nepotist, policy maker, power broker, powerbroker, sacred cow, sirdar, socialite, sun, dignitary, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP, worthy.

influential person (noun)	high-up (noun)
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events	an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

Difference between influential person and high-up

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