radical
adjective
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especially of leavescauline
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(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the normextremistultra
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markedly new or introducing radical changerevolutionary
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arising from or going to the root or source“a radical flaw in the plan”
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of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root“a radical verb form”
noun
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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removedstem
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a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
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a person who has radical ideas or opinions
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(mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
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(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a moleculegroup
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an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electronfree radical