Radical vs Rooted - 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.
Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
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(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
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* 2011 , William P. Ryan, Working from the Heart: A Therapist?s Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy ,
Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
* 1979 , Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia ,
* 1997 , William E. Reiser, To Hear God?s Word, Listen to the World: The Liberation of Spirituality ,
* 2008 , Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity ,
(mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.
(slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
(computing, uncomparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
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As adjectives the difference between radical and rooted
is that radical is favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter while rooted is fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.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).As a verb rooted is
(root).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
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* ----rooted
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She stayed rooted in place.
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- Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life.
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- He will immediately break in on their mo?t rooted prejudices ; and with a kind of malignant ?atisfaction hack their darling notions with un?paring rigour and unblu?hing in?olence.
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- The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion.
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- With other experiences added on top, the feeling state becomes more entrenched, more rooted .
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- Proper Philadelphians, especially before they became Episcopalians, and the unfashionable branches of their families to this day are surely more rooted in Westtown than St. Paul?s, the fashionable favorite.
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- For what is gradually taking hold, I think, is a way of drawing near to God that is far more rooted' in history and far more ' rooted in the gospel than we have been accustomed to.
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- This form of humanism posed a greater danger to the monks and clerics than Italian humanism because it was less extravagant, less pagan, and more rooted in an ideal of Christian charity that the church at least nominally shared.
- I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this
- I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted .
- You are rooted . All your base are belong to us.