unipolar

Adjective

unipolar (not comparable)

1. Having a single pole.
   • All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.2031 August 12, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2009
2. Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
   • Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250
3. Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.