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Bipolar

//baɪˈpoʊ.lɚ// adj, noun

Definitions

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

    "(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; ..."

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

    "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)."

  5. 5
    Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having two poles wordnet
  2. 2
    of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions wordnet
  3. 3
    of or relating to manic depressive illness wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A bipolar cell. countable
  2. 2
    Ellipsis of bipolar disorder. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bi- + polar.

Etymology 2

From bi- + polar.

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