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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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