Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pivotal manner; by means of or on a pivot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
pivotal way.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pivotally.
Examples
-
Her resourcefulness brings some welcome comic relief though not without an element of suspense to another grueling hour that ends on a pivotally confrontational note.
Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Torchwood and HBO Finales, Plus 9/11 Programming
-
Don't let your defensiveness about it shut down a pivotally important discussion though.
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning Sundance Interview THE RUNAWAYS – Collider.com
-
Nuance and foreshadowing and metaphor and symbolism and repetition are all pivotally important to any diagnostician.
-
Her resourcefulness brings some welcome comic relief though not without an element of suspense to another grueling hour that ends on a pivotally confrontational note.
Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Torchwood and HBO Finales, Plus 9/11 Programming
-
Now Bancroft had New Hampshire, not a large state but pivotally located in the North, whence a Polk boomlet must come.
-
Now Bancroft had New Hampshire, not a large state but pivotally located in the North, whence a Polk boomlet must come.
-
So, it is that a lobbyist character just had to figure pivotally in O'Brien's return to comic acting after a hiatus of several years while he was getting his Capitol Hill career going.
-
[It] also is pivotally tied to the definition of our nation as a nation of immigrants, and I think people find tremendous motivation in that.
-
Farber, too, studied the past compulsively—and the episode that pivotally fascinated him was the story of the national polio campaign.
-
So, it is that a lobbyist character just had to figure pivotally in O'Brien's return to comic acting after a hiatus of several years while he was getting his Capitol Hill career going.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.