unipolar

English

Etymology

uni- +‎ polar.

Adjective

unipolar (not comparable)

  1. Having a single pole.
    • 2008, Dec. 31, “Michael Kinsley”, in The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later‎:
      All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.
  2. (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
    • 2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250:
      Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder

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