radical
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(s) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- extremist political views
- radical opinions on education
- an ultra conservative
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(s) markedly new or introducing radical change
- a revolutionary discovery
- radical political views
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(s) arising from or going to the root or source
- a radical flaw in the plan
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(a) of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- a radical verb form
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(a) 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
Nouns
- (n) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule chemical group, group,
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(n) an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- in the body free radicals are high-energy particles that ricochet wildly and damage cells
- (n) a person who has radical ideas or opinions
- (n) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- (n) a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
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(n) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- thematic vowels are part of the stem