ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unipolar

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Unipolar is an adjective meaning Having a single pole.

Meaning

Having a single pole.

More Meanings

  1. (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
  2. (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.

Example Sentences

All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.
Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder

Synonyms for unipolar

Depending on context, synonyms include monopolar.

Antonyms for unipolar

Common opposites include bipolar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unipolarity, monopolar, monoionic, uniporal, uniphasic, multipolar.

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