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radical

adjective
  1. especially of leaves
    cauline
  2. (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
    extremistultra
  3. markedly new or introducing radical change
    revolutionary
  4. arising from or going to the root or source
    “a radical flaw in the plan”
  5. of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
    “a radical verb form”
noun
  1. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
    stem
  2. a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
  3. a person who has radical ideas or opinions
  4. (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
  5. (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
    group
  6. an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron
    free radical