Radical
['rædɪk(ə)l] or ['rædɪkl]
Definition
(noun.) a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram.
(noun.) a person who has radical ideas or opinions.
(noun.) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity.
(adj.) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem; 'basal placentation'; 'radical leaves' .
(adj.) arising from or going to the root or source; 'a radical flaw in the plan' .
(adj.) of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root; 'a radical verb form' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
(a.) Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.
(a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.
(a.) Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.
(a.) Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.
(n.) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.
(n.) A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.
(n.) One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative.
(n.) A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.
(n.) Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.
(n.) A radical quantity. See under Radical, a.
(a.) A radical vessel. See under Radical, a.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Original, fundamental, organic, constitutional.[2]. Primitive, underived, uncompounded, simple.[3]. Thorough, entire, complete, perfect.
n. [1]. Come-outer, radical reformer.[2]. Primitive letter.[3]. Root, radix, etymon, primitive word.[4]. (Chem.) Base.
Typist: Nadine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Original, fundamental, thoroughgoing, unsparing, extreme, entire, innate,natural, essential, immanent, ingrained, underived, deep-seated
ANT:Derived, ascititious, adventitious, superficial, extraneous, partial, moderate,conservative, acquired
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Definition
adj. pertaining to the root or origin: original: fundamental: intrinsic: primitive: implanted by nature: not derived: serving to originate: (bot.) proceeding immediately from the root: (politics) ultra-liberal democratic.—n. a root: a primitive word or letter: one who advocates radical reform an uncompromising democratic politician: (chem.) the base of a compound.—v.t. Rad′icalise to make radical.—v.i. to become radical adopt radical political principles.—n. Rad′icalism the principles or spirit of a radical or democrat.—adv. Rad′ically.—n. Rad′icalness.
Typist: Naomi
Examples
- The necessity for this was due to the many radical variations made from accepted methods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is democratic machinery with an educated citizenship behind it that embodies all the fears of the conservative and the hopes of the radical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So long as they do not blind people to the necessity for radical treatment, only a doctrinaire would object to them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This is a difficulty which is common to conservative and radical, and if I have used three living men to illustrate the problem it is only because they seem to illuminate it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What a Radical you are--oh, dear me, what a Radical you are! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The story of the kiln, as told by Mr. Mallory, is illustrative of Edison's tendency to upset tradition and make a radical departure from generally accepted ideas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For there is radical difference between even the most general method and a prescribed rule. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Political discussion, whether reactionary or radical, is monotonously confined to very few issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Jews are the most radical. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In this, which was a new and radical invention, we see the first step toward the modern incandescent lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is the Radical of Nature to him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These Jacobins were the equivalents of the American radicals, men with untrammelled advanced ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The radicals of recent times proclaim that there is no orthodoxy, no doctrine that men must accept without question. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We are a pair of Radicals. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is perhaps no accident that two of the greatest classical scholars in England--Gilbert Murray and Alfred Zimmern--are political radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I'm none of your radicals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For they were the conservatives of their day: between '76 and '89 they had gone the usual way of opportunist radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am tempted to go further and put into the same class all those radicals who wish simply to substitute some other kind of machine for the one we have. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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