Adjective

(en adjective)

Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.

His beliefs are radical .

(botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).

Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.

* Burke

The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.

Thoroughgoing.

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The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.

(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.

a radical''' quantity; a '''radical sign

Excellent; awesome.

That was a radical jump!

Adjective

(er)

(label) Unconstrained.

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# Not imprisoned or enslaved.

# Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative.

#* Milward

He was free only with a few.

# Generous; liberal.

# (label) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free .

# Without obligations.

# Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?

# Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.

# (label) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.

# (label) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.

Obtainable without any payment.

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# Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.

(label) Unconstrained.

# (label) Unconstrained by relators.

# Unconstrained by quantifiers.

# (label) Of identifiers, not bound.

# That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.

(label) Unconstrained.

# Unobstructed, without blockages.

# Unattached or uncombined.

# Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.

# Not attached; loose.

#*

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Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

* (w) (1635?-1715)

princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties

*

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(label) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.

(label) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of .

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.

Certain or honourable; the opposite of base .

(Burrill)

(label) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common .

(Burrill)