Radical vs Dramatic - What's the difference?
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Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
(botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
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(linguistics, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
(linguistics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
(chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
(math) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
Excellent; awesome.
A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
A person with radical opinions.
(arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
(linguistics) In logographic writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic .
(linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
(chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
(organic chemistry) A free radical.
Of or relating to the drama.
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Striking in appearance or effect.
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As adjectives the difference between radical and dramatic
is that radical is favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter while dramatic is of or relating to the drama.As a noun radical
is a member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).radical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His beliefs are radical .
- The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.
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- The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.
- a radical''' quantity; a '''radical sign
- That was a radical jump!
Derived terms
* radicalness * radicality * radicalize * radically * radical empiricism * radical feminism * radical left * radical pluralism * radical reform * radical right * radical Islam * radical vinegarSynonyms
* (pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something) fundamentalAntonyms
* (pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something) ignorable, trivialCoordinate terms
* (produced with the root of the tongue) labial, coronal, dorsal, laryngealNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia radical)Derived terms
* free radical * radical signExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----dramatic
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Alternative forms
* dramatickAdjective
(en adjective)Best and brightest, passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}