radical

radical is a 7-letter English word with 24 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.
4. adjective. 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.
5. adjective. Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.
6. adjective. Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.
7. noun. A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.
8. noun. A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.
9. noun. One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative.
10. noun. A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.
11. noun. 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.
12. noun. A radical quantity. See under Radical, a.
13. adjective. A radical vessel. See under Radical, a.
14. noun. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

    "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

    Synonyms: base, root, stem, theme

15. noun. a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
16. noun. a person who has radical ideas or opinions
17. noun. (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
18. noun. (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

    Synonyms: group

19. noun. 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

    "in the body free radicals are high-energy particles that ricochet wildly and damage cells"

20. adjective. 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

    "basal placentation"

    "radical leaves"

    Synonyms: basal

21. adjective. (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm

    "extremist political views"

    "radical opinions on education"

    Synonyms: extremist, ultra

22. adjective. markedly new or introducing radical change

    "a revolutionary discovery"

    "radical political views"

    Synonyms: revolutionary

23. adjective. arising from or going to the root or source

    "a radical flaw in the plan"

24. adjective. of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root

    "a radical verb form"

Synonyms

base, root, stem, theme, group, basal, extremist, ultra, revolutionary

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in radical:

cardial

Common word forms

radicals, radically, radicalise, radicality, radicalize, radicalness

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