Radically
['rædɪkəlɪ] or ['rædɪkli]
Definition
(adv.) in a radical manner; 'she took a radically different approach'.
Typist: Meg--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.
(adv.) Without derivation; primitively; essentially.
Checker: Paulette
Examples
- In 1850 the art of gunmaking began to improve radically. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It will be seen that the times have changed radically since Edison became a telegrapher, and that in this respect a chapter of electrical history has been definitely closed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Moral knowledge is thought to be a thing apart, and conscience is thought of as something radically different from consciousness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This escape pinion also carries a wheel, but it is radically different in appearance, as well as in action, from any of the previously mentioned wheels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Men are not able radically to cure, either in themselves or others, that narrowness of soul, which makes them prefer the present to the remote. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- There is not first a purely psychical process, followed abruptly by a radically different physical one. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hence the problem of the two is radically unlike. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The thinker who has faced this difficulty most radically is Georges Sorel in the Reflexions sur la Violence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He said of course the congregation could not hear a Northern clergyman who differed so radically with them on questions of government. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checker: Paulette