unidimensional

[ yoo-ni-di-men-shuh-nl, -dahy- ]

adjective

1. one-dimensional.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unidimensional¹

1880–85; uni- + dimensional ( def )

Example Sentences

I dismiss any unidimensional analysis of politics and voting.

From Salon

“You Again” offers a sophisticated argument about the nature of time and memory: “Although we experience time as unidimensional – as a unidirectional sequence of events – physicists have known this to be an illusion since Einstein.”

From Washington Post

“You don’t want to make a unidimensional decision about the entire country,” he said.

From Washington Times

Her husband, Jonathan, who handles narration every third chapter, is more unidimensional, or at least curiously edgeless.

From New York Times

List: I’m not convinced that we can have a single unidimensional measure of progress.

From Scientific American