Definition for Pivotal:

• 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.

Synonyms for Pivotal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • polar.
  •cardinal (adjective)
  • fundamental,
  • paramount,
  • indispensable,
  • main,
  • constitutive,
  • primary,
  • chief,
  • basic.
  •causative (adjective)
  • formative,
  • causal,
  • germinal,
  • motivational,
  • effective,
  • responsible,
  • influential,
  • generative,
  • causative,
  • executive.
  •central (adjective)
  • axial,
  • Omphalic,
  • important,
  • focal,
  • innermost,
  • centroidal,
  • nuclear,
  • radical,
  • core,
  • middle,
  • median,
  • significant,
  • salient,
  • halfway,
  • interior,
  • equidistant,
  • midmost,
  • middlemost,
  • central,
  • predominant,
  • mid,
  • mean,
  • key,
  • main,
  • centric,
  • midway,
  • intermediate,
  • umbilical.
  •critical (adjective)
  • determinative,
  • grave,
  • weighty,
  • pressing,
  • serious,
  • dangerous,
  • perilous,
  • urgent,
  • high-priority,
  • climacteric,
  • acute,
  • consequential,
  • all-important.
  •crucial (adjective)
  • imperative,
  • clamorous,
  • insistent,
  • necessary,
  • compelling.
  •important (adjective)
  • important,
  • consequential,
  • influential,
  • earthshaking,
  • momentous,
  • eminent,
  • big-wig,
  • prominent,
  • high-powered,
  • serious,
  • vital,
  • heavyweight,
  • significant,
  • world-shaking,
  • distinguished,
  • noteworthy,
  • grave,
  • major,
  • notable,
  • crucial,
  • fundamental,
  • big-name,
  • salient,
  • critical,
  • considerable.
  •key (adjective)
  • major.
  •life-and-death (adjective)
  • earthshaking,
  • earth-shaking.
  •middle (adjective)
  • intermediate,
  • average,
  • mid,
  • equidistant,
  • mediocre,
  • median,
  • medial,
  • half-and-half,
  • central,
  • halfway,
  • axial,
  • medium,
  • mean,
  • half,
  • middle-of-the-road,
  • mezzo,
  • middle,
  • core,
  • Bisecting,
  • middling,
  • centralized,
  • midmost,
  • geocentric,
  • nuclear.
  •momentous (adjective)
  • fateful,
  • historic,
  • substantial,
  • big,
  • considerable,
  • notable.
  •pivotal (adjective)
  • central,
  • vital,
  • essential,
  • ruling,
  • critical,
  • crucial,
  • middle,
  • Overruling,
  • principal,
  • cardinal,
  • momentous,
  • focal,
  • overriding,
  • decisive,
  • determining,
  • climactic.

• n.

  •
  • key.
  •pivotal (noun)
  • important,
  • polar,
  • crucial.

• Other synonyms:

  •essential
  • key.
  •Other relevant words:
  • portentous,
  • fateful,
  • principal,
  • vital,
  • polar,
  • constitutive,
  • indispensable,
  • etiological,
  • climactic,
  • determining,
  • needed,
  • capital,
  • acute,
  • perilous,
  • paramount,
  • ominous,
  • required,
  • Institutive,
  • emergent,
  • compulsory,
  • arctic,
  • weighty,
  • Omphalic,
  • high pressure,
  • predominant,
  • centermost,
  • basic,
  • dangerous,
  • centroidal,
  • essential,
  • centric,
  • primary,
  • centrosymmetric,
  • pressing,
  • crying,
  • requisite,
  • all-important,
  • diametrical,
  • climacteric,
  • profound,
  • clamorous,
  • landmark,
  • high-priority,
  • necessary,
  • major,
  • ruling,
  • frigid,
  • originative,
  • laden,
  • most important,
  • determinative,
  • fraught,
  • historic,
  • loaded,
  • burning,
  • icy,
  • pregnant,
  • overriding,
  • gelid,
  • fundamental,
  • glacial,
  • imperious,
  • freezing,
  • mandatory,
  • middlemost,
  • significant,
  • charged,
  • decisive,
  • compelling,
  • opposite,
  • big,
  • insistent,
  • Prepotent,
  • instant,
  • life-or-death,
  • earth-shaking,
  • substantial,
  • high,
  • critical moment,
  • urgent,
  • imperative,
  • chief,
  • radical,
  • key,
  • life-and-death,
  • umbilical,
  • cardinal,
  • critic,
  • exigent,
  • concentrated,
  • precedent-setting,
  • occasional,
  • effectual,
  • Overruling.

Antonyms for Pivotal:

• adj.

  • cardinal
    minor, inessential, negligible, secondary, insignificant.
  • central
    outside, peripheral, exterior.
  • critical
    uncritical, trivial.
  • key
    nonessential.
  • momentous
    trifling, immaterial.
  • overriding
    least.
  • pivotal
    unimportant, unsubstantial, inconsequential.
  • ruling
    subjective, yielding, inferior, submissive.
  • Other antonyms:
    noncrucial.