Adjective

(en adjective)

Entire.

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*1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

*:During the whole' time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the ' whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

*, chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}

Sound, uninjured, healthy.

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*1939 , (Alfred Edward Housman), Additional Poems , X, lines 5-6

*:Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.

(lb) From which none of its constituents has been removed.

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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.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}

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!