ALL meanings of radical
rad·i·cal
R r - adjective radical change: drastic 1
- adjective radical politics: militant, extreme 1
- noun radical politics: militant 1
- adjective radical of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference. 1
- adjective radical thoroughgoing or extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms: a radical change in the policy of a company. 1
- adjective radical favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms: radical ideas; radical and anarchistic ideologues. 1
- adjective radical favoring, supporting, or representing extreme forms of religious fundamentalism: radical fundamentalists and their rejection of modern science. 1
- adjective radical forming a basis or foundation: What is the radical reason for his choice? 1
- adjective radical existing inherently in a thing or person: radical defects of character. 1
- adjective radical Mathematics. pertaining to or forming a root. denoting or pertaining to the radical sign. irrational (def 5b). 1
- adjective radical Grammar. of or pertaining to the root of a word. 1
- adjective radical Botany. of or arising from the root or the base of the stem. 1
- noun radical a person who holds or follows strong convictions or extreme principles; extremist. 1
- noun radical a person who advocates fundamental political, economic, and social reforms by direct and often uncompromising methods. 1
- noun radical Mathematics. a quantity expressed as a root of another quantity. the set of elements of a ring, some power of which is contained in a given ideal. radical sign. 1
- noun radical Chemistry. group (def 3). free radical. 1
- noun radical Grammar. root1 (def 12). 1
- noun radical (in Chinese writing) one of 214 ideographic elements used in combination with phonetics to form thousands of different characters. 1
- adjective radical Radical changes and differences are very important and great in degree. 0
- adjective radical Radical people believe that there should be great changes in society and try to bring about these changes. 0
- adjective radical A radical is someone who has radical views. 0
- adjective radical of, relating to, or characteristic of the basic or inherent constitution of a person or thing; fundamental 0
- adjective radical concerned with or tending to concentrate on fundamental aspects of a matter; searching or thoroughgoing 0
- adjective radical favouring or tending to produce extreme or fundamental changes in political, economic, or social conditions, institutions, habits of mind, etc 0
- adjective radical (of treatment) aimed at removing the source of a disease 0
- adjective radical very good; excellent 0
- adjective radical of, relating to, or arising from the root or the base of the stem of a plant 0
- adjective radical of, relating to, or containing roots of numbers or quantities 0
- adjective radical of or relating to the root of a word 0
- noun radical a person who favours extreme or fundamental change in existing institutions or in political, social, or economic conditions 0
- noun radical a root of a number or quantity, such as 3√5, √x 0
- noun radical (in logographic writing systems such as that used for Chinese) a part of a character conveying lexical meaning 0
- adjective radical of or from the root or roots; going to the foundation or source of something; fundamental; basic 0
- adjective radical extreme; thorough 0
- adjective radical favoring fundamental or extreme change; specif., favoring basic change in the social or economic structure 0
- adjective radical designating or of any of various modern political parties, esp. in Europe, ranging from moderate to conservative in program 0
- adjective radical of or coming from the root 0
- adjective radical having to do with the root or roots of a number or quantity 0
- noun radical a basic or root part of something 0
- noun radical a fundamental 0
- noun radical a person holding radical views, esp. one favoring fundamental social or economic change 0
- noun radical a member or adherent of a Radical party 0
- noun radical a group of two or more atoms that acts as a single atom and goes through a reaction unchanged, or is replaced by a single atom: it is normally incapable of separate existence 0
- noun radical the indicated root of a quantity or quantities, shown by an expression written under the radical sign 0
- noun radical radical sign 0