bipolar
See also: bipolär
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bipolar (comparative more bipolar, superlative most bipolar)
- Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
- 1992, Paul Gilbert, Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness:
- (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; ...
- 1997, David A. Lake, Patrick M. Morgan, Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World:
- 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.
- 2006, Leandro Herrero, The Leader with Seven Faces: finding your own ways to practice leadership in today's organization:
- And today, the world has become more and more bipolar.
- Relating to both polar regions.
- (physics) Relating to a bipole.
- Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
- Synonym: (dated) manic-depressive
- 2005, Barbara E. Bryden, Sundial: Theoretical Relationships Between Psychological Type, Talent, and Disease:
- 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, Robert H. Coombs, editor, Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinations:
- 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.
- 2006, Jon P. Bloch, Jeffrey A. Naser, The everything health guide to adult bipolar disorder:
- If a bipolar person you work with is receiving successful treatment, you might not even know that she is bipolar.
- (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
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involving both poles
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relating to or having bipolar disorder
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bipolar (countable and uncountable, plural bipolars)
- (countable) A bipolar cell.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of bipolar disorder.
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bipolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural bipolars)
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bipolar
- bipolar (involving two poles)
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Inflection of bipolar | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | bipolar | — | —2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | bipolart | — | —2 |
Plural | bipolare | — | —2 |
Definite attributive1 | bipolare | — | — |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
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bipolar (strong nominative masculine singular bipolarer, not comparable)
- bipolar
- Synonyms: doppelpolig, manisch-depressiv, zweipolig
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Positive forms of bipolar (uncomparable)
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist bipolar | sie ist bipolar | es ist bipolar | sie sind bipolar | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bipolarer | bipolare | bipolares | bipolare |
genitive | bipolaren | bipolarer | bipolaren | bipolarer | |
dative | bipolarem | bipolarer | bipolarem | bipolaren | |
accusative | bipolaren | bipolare | bipolares | bipolare | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der bipolare | die bipolare | das bipolare | die bipolaren |
genitive | des bipolaren | der bipolaren | des bipolaren | der bipolaren | |
dative | dem bipolaren | der bipolaren | dem bipolaren | den bipolaren | |
accusative | den bipolaren | die bipolare | das bipolare | die bipolaren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein bipolarer | eine bipolare | ein bipolares | (keine) bipolaren |
genitive | eines bipolaren | einer bipolaren | eines bipolaren | (keiner) bipolaren | |
dative | einem bipolaren | einer bipolaren | einem bipolaren | (keinen) bipolaren | |
accusative | einen bipolaren | eine bipolare | ein bipolares | (keine) bipolaren |
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bipolar m or f (plural bipolares)
- bipolar (involving both poles)
- (psychiatry) bipolar (relating to or having bipolar disorder)
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Borrowed from French bipolaire. Equivalent to bi- + polar.
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bipolar m or n (feminine singular bipolară, masculine plural bipolari, feminine and neuter plural bipolare)
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Declension of bipolar
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | bipolar | bipolară | bipolari | bipolare | ||
definite | bipolarul | bipolara | bipolarii | bipolarele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | bipolar | bipolare | bipolari | bipolare | ||
definite | bipolarului | bipolarei | bipolarilor | bipolarelor |
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bipolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural bipolares)
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- “bipolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014