Pivotal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pivotal \Piv"ot*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to,
     or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the
     pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a
     battle.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pivotal
       adj : being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal
             location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"-
             Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a
             polar principal" [syn: {polar}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "pivotal":
     acute, axial, behind the scenes, capital, cardinal, causal,
     causative, centermost, central, centralized, centric, centroidal,
     centrosymmetric, charged, clamorous, climacteric, compelling,
     concentrated, constitutive, critical, crucial, crying, decisive,
     determinative, effectual, emergent, essential, etiological,
     exigent, focal, formative, geocentric, high-pressure,
     high-priority, imperative, imperious, important, insistent,
     instant, institutive, kairotic, key, loaded, middle, middlemost,
     midmost, momentous, occasional, omphalic, originative, overriding,
     overruling, pregnant, pressing, principal, radical, ruling,
     significant, umbilical, urgent, vital