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pivotal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pivotal has 1 sense
- pivotal(s = adj.all) polar - being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal" Derived form noun pivot1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pivotal, 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]
THESAURUS
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
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