radical English
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!
Derived terms
* radicalness
* radicality
* radicalize
* radically
* radical empiricism
* radical feminism
* radical left
* radical pluralism
* radical reform
* radical right
* radical Islam
* radical vinegar
Related terms
* root
* radix
Synonyms
* (pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something) fundamental
Antonyms
* (pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something) ignorable, trivial
Coordinate terms
* (produced with the root of the tongue) labial, coronal, dorsal, laryngeal
Noun
( en noun)
( wikipedia radical)
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.
Derived terms
* free radical
* radical sign
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ultimate English
Adjective
( wikipedia ultimate)
( -)
Final; last in a series.
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, page= 15
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
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- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
* Coleridge
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- an ultimate constituent of matter
Antonyms
* proximate
Derived terms
* antepenultimate
* penultimate
* ultimateness
Related terms
* ulterior
* ultimatum
* ultra
* ultra-
Noun
( en noun)
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
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