Radical

/ˈɹædɪkəl/

Synonyms for "radical" (608 found)

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Noun(13 words)
free radicalrootabsolute termbasebasicchemical groupcultural rebellioncultural revolutioncultural revolutionary artcultural-revolutionary agendacultural-revolutionary movementcultural-revolutionary phasecultural-revolutionary zeal
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Adjective(10 words)
avant-garde designbasalcultural overhaulcultural rebellion themescultural revolution movementcultural revolution movementscultural revolutionariescultural revolutionarycultural-revolutionarycultural-revolutionary literature

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Verb(1 words)
Adjective(14 words)
disruptivedisruptive influencedisruptive technologydrastic dilutionsepoch-making eventsepochalextremistfrench revolution ideasgreat leap forward policygroundbreaking ideaiconoclasticinsurrectionary ideologymajor paradigm shiftmaoist cultural campaign
Noun(24 words)
dramatic political changedrasticera of scientific upheavalessentialextremeextreme emotionextremistextremistsfoundationalfrench revolution leadersfrench revolutionaryfringefundamentalgroundbreaking devicegroundbreaking methodgrouphereticjihadistjihadistsleftists
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madmanmajor cultural shiftmaoistmodern artwork

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Adjective(39 words)
modern musicnew orderpolitical revolutionpolitical revolution movementsprometheanradical speciesred guard movementrevolutionaryrevolutionary actrevolutionary activistrevolutionary bannersrevolutionary curriculumrevolutionary grouprevolutionary idearevolutionary ideasrevolutionary ideologyrevolutionary leaderrevolutionary leadersrevolutionary methodrevolutionary momentum
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revolutionary movementrevolutionary policyrevolutionary rhetoricrevolutionary technologyrevolutionary theoryrevolutionary thinkerrevolutionary thinking in educationscientific paradigm shiftscientific upheavalstechnological revolutionstectonictectonic upheavingtransformativetransformative impactultraviolent overthrow ideologyviolent revolutionviolent revolution periodwild idea
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numeralnumerarynumerativenumericnumericaloctadoddof the essenceoghamomnibusomnipresentordinalorganicorganic chemicaloriginoriginaloriginationout of this worldout-and-outoutrightoxyacidpairparadigmparlor bolshevikparlor pinkpavementpentadperfectpervasivephoneticphonetic symbolpictogrampictographpinkpinkopivotalplainplumbpolymerportport tackportsidepositivepossibleprefixprefixationpregnantprimalprimaryprimeprimevalprimitiveprimordialprincipalprinciplepristineprocliticprofoundprogressionistprogressistprogressiveprogressivistprotogenicprovenanceproveniencepseudoisomerpurerabidradixrationalreagentrealrebelreciprocalredreformationalreformativereformatoryreformerreformistreformisticregularrevisionalrevisionistrevisoryrevolutionalrevolutionaryrevolutionistrevulsionaryrevulsiveringriprapriserock bottomrootrootedrudimentrudimentaryrunesans culottesans-culotteschismaticseatsecessionistsectaryseminalseparatistseveresheershorthandside chainsillsimple radicalsinistersinistralsinistrocerebralsinistrocularsinistrogyratesinistrorsesolid groundsolid rocksourcespace-latticestemstereobatestockstraightstraight chainstylobatesubmultiplesubstantialsubstantivesubstratumsubstructionsubstructuresubversivesuffixsuffixationsulfacidsurdsweepingsyndicalisttaprootterra firmaterroristtetradthemethoroughthoroughgoingthrough and throughthrough-and-throughtoleranttoo muchtotaltranscendentaltransilienttriadtrimerubiquitousultraultra-ultraultraconservativeultraistultraisticunconditionalunderbuildingundercarriageundergirdingundergroundunderlyingunderpinningunderstructionunderstructureuniversalunmitigatedunqualifiedunreservedunrestrictedutmostutopianutopistutteruttermostveritableversovisionaryvitalway outwedgewholesalewidewobblyword formationword letterword-formationwrong sideyippiezealot
Noun(43 words)
moonshotmore cultural revolution historymore cultural-revolutionarymore insurrectionarymore revolutionarily designedmore revolutionarymost cultural-revolutionarymost digital-revolutionarymost radical shiftmost revolutionarily innovativemost revolutionarymutantoverthrowingradical paradigm shiftreformerrevolutionariesrevolutionarily designedrevolutionarily dramaticrevolutionarily innovativerevolutionarily oriented
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revolutionarily rapidrevolutionaryrevolutionary actsrevolutionary advocaterevolutionary changerevolutionary designrevolutionary erarevolutionary labelrevolutionary overthrowrevolutionary thinkingrevolutionistsrevolutionizingrevolutionizing classroomsroot wordsquare rootstemstorming bastillesudden changesweepingthemeupendinguprootingviolent upheaval
Determiner(2 words)
most cultural-revolutionary eramost extreme form
Verb(2 words)

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

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actoragentamountatombuilding blockcharacterchemical speciesdescriptordoerformgraphgraphemegraphic symbolintensity descriptormath conceptmeasure

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More specific

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activistbase formcube rootdrastic reformextreme measurehydroxyl radicalmethyl radicalrevolutionaryroot wordsquare rootsudden shift

Collocations

8 entries
radical approachradical changeradical idearadical movementradical reformradical shiftradical solutionradical thinker

Inflections

3 entries
more radicalmost radicalradicals

Derivations

8 entries

Antonyms

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similar

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Translations

14 translations across 10 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • جَذْريّ adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Armenian

1 entries
  • արմատական adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • коренен adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Catalan

1 entries
  • radical adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 根的 adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))
  • 根部的 adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Finnish

1 entries
  • juuri- adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

French

1 entries
  • radical adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Italian

3 entries
  • radicale adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))
  • radicale noun (ring theory: ideal of elements of a ring sharing a certain given property)
  • radicale noun (ring theory: intersection of maximal submodules of a module)

Romanian

2 entries
  • de rădăcină adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))
  • rădăcinal adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Russian

1 entries
  • корнево́й adj (pertaining to the root (of a plant))

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

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His argument is more radical than yours.

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Some Blacks seek more radical solutions.

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You'd better leave off such a radical idea.

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For this design house it was an appropriate strategy to introduce even more radical colors into computer production.

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