Radical is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RADICAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a group of atoms behaving like a single atom and passing unchanged from one compound to another
• a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social change, or a member of a political party or section of a party pursuing such aims.
• a group of atoms behaving as a unit in a number of compounds.
• the root or base form of a word.
• any of the basic set of approximately 214 Chinese characters constituting semantically or functionally significant elements in the composition of other characters and used as a means of classifying characters in dictionaries.
• a quantity forming or expressed as the root of another.
• a radical sign.
• A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.
• A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.
• One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative.
• A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.
• Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.
• A radical quantity. See under Radical, a.
• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
• an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
• a person who has radical ideas or opinions
• (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
• a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• person advocating fundamental (political) change
ADJECTIVE:
• fundamental
• (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough
• forming an inherent or fundamental part of the nature of someone or something
• (of surgery or medical treatment) thorough and intended to be completely curative.
• advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of a political party
• belonging to an extreme section of the Liberal party during the 19th century.
• characterized by independence of or departure from tradition; innovative or unorthodox
• denoting or relating to the roots of a word.
• belonging to the root of a chord.
• relating to or forming the root of a number or quantity.
• of, or springing direct from, the root or stem base of a plant.
• very good; excellent
• Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
• Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.
• Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.
• Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.
• Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.
• Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.
• A radical vessel. See under Radical, a.
• (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
• markedly new or introducing radical change
• arising from or going to the root or source
• of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
• especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a group of atoms that acts as a unit in chemical compounds

Words related to RADICAL

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Words that contain RADICAL

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How to use RADICAL in a sentence

• The radical Abolitionists, in like manner, asserted that it was wicked to hold a man in bondage under any form of government, or under any guarantee of the Constitution.
• The radical members, led by Cobden and Bright, were sure to oppose it.
• That tendency may become very marked and lead to a very radical change of policy in the government of colleges, a change so radical as to be revolutionary in its effect.
• He is a radical who believes in heredity, who is aware of our debt to the past, and who would use the laws of social inheritance for the elevation of mankind.
• From his life, if there were one, you would learn that he was always a Radical because he was always a Tory.
• William Fowler, a banker, was invited, and accepted the task of handing over the representation of a Radical borough to a Tory.
• The moderate free-State men favored the former, the violent and radical the latter, course.
• In the first place, there were radical changes in the nationality of the newcomers.
• As yet, however, the scheme was tolerated rather than heartily indorsed by the more radical elements in Congress.
• It takes in regeneration, that wonderful and radical change in man wrought by God through his Holy Spirit, by which man passes from darkness to light, and out of death into life.
• Many books given by these teachers for outside reading are by Socialist or radical authors.
• A difference as radical pervades all the provisions of the Constitution.
• But here we meet with a radical misconception of the whole logical attitude of science.
• You will find a radical change in the entire internal organism.
• Hume, and the little circle of radical members who, like Mr.
• He had no sympathy with the more radical element among the Democrats.
• There is a radical difference between man and inanimate nature.
• Here and there, scattered among house accounts, were the names of the radical members of The Central Labor Council, and other names, spoken before her and carefully remembered.
• Radical differences with the majority in the Congress, upon questions vital and far-reaching, ultimately culminated in the presentation of articles of impeachment.
• But it is not, therefore, necessarily its radical and absolute refutation.
• The courts of the North and East are more radical, and the courts of Massachusetts and the United States most radical of all.
• We may assume, therefore, that the law is at least as radical as it is herein presented.
• Now the most thorough and radical work of the English Reformation was done by this class of men of which Latimer was the type.
• There will be radical changes in all the moral conditions of the earth.
• This period is characterized by rapid and radical alterations in the language.
• Slavery brought about many radical changes, some in one way and some in another.
• And yet these are but the incidents of an advance movement which is radical and far-reaching.

Similar words containing RADIC without suffix al

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