bipolar

comparative more bipolar · superlative most bipolar

1. Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.

   And today, the world has become more and more bipolar.

   2006, Leandro Herrero, The Leader with Seven Faces: finding your own ways to practice leadership in today's organization

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   (4) the unipolar-bipolar distinction is important in regard to these personality variables; the trait of extraversion (associated as it is with positive affectivity) may mean that individual variation here leads to a more bipolar pattern; ...

   1992, Paul Gilbert, Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness

   Pakistan greatly resents this, but its efforts to adjust the complex have involved trying to make it more bipolar (via nuclear weapons), and not to move to another security order.

   1997, David A. Lake, Patrick M. Morgan, Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World

2. Relating to both polar regions.
3. natural sciencesRelating to a bipole.
4. Relating to or having bipolar disorder.

   If a bipolar person you work with is receiving successful treatment, you might not even know that she is bipolar.

   2006, Jon P. Bloch, Jeffrey A. Naser, The everything health guide to adult bipolar disorder

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   And in both visual artists and creative writers, there is a considerably higher risk of affective disorder, more unipolar (depression only) in artists, and more bipolar (mania and depression) in writers, and leading to higher rates of alcoholism and suicide, particularly in writers (Andreasen 1987; DeLong & Aldershof, 1988; Jamison, 1986, 1995).

   2005, Barbara E. Bryden, Sundial: Theoretical Relationships Between Psychological Type, Talent, and Disease

   Since many childhood depressions become more bipolar in adult life, and because Jay's father was bipolar, I added Depakote to "protect" him against this bipolar possibility.

   2005, Robert H. Coombs, editor, Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinations

   Synonyms: manic-depressive

5. governmentOf or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.

plural bipolars

1. countableA bipolar cell.
2. abbreviationellipsisuncountableEllipsis of bipolar disorder.

   [R]ecent meta-analyses have shown asthma, obesity, migraine and head injury are associated with bipolar.

   2018 April 26, Tobias A Rowland, Steven Marwaha, “Epidemiology and risk factors for bipolar disorder”, in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, volume 8, number 9, →DOI, pages 251–269