Word Meanings - RADICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root. 2. Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the
Additional info about word: RADICAL
Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root. 2. 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. The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence. Burke. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RADICAL)
- Democratic
- Popular
- leveling
- radical
- subversive
- unlicensed
- unarculca
- destructive
- republican
- Organic
- Fundamental
- constitutional
Related words: (words related to RADICAL)
- POPULARIZATION
The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people. - ORGANICALNESS
The quality or state of being organic. - DEMOCRATICAL
Democratic. The democratical was democratically received. Algernon Sidney. - CONSTITUTIONALIST
One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist. - DESTRUCTIVENESS
The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne. - LEVELER
1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist. - LEVEL
libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is - RADICALNESS
Quality or state of being radical. - FUNDAMENTALLY
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke. - POPULAR
1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in - DEMOCRATIC
1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people. 2. Relating to a political party so called. 3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. The Democratic party, the name - DESTRUCTIVELY
In a destructive manner. - RADICALLY
1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior. - ORGANICALLY
In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone. - SUBVERSIVE
Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. Rogers. - FUNDAMENTAL
Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some - REPUBLICANIZE
To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay. - CONSTITUTIONALITY
1. The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame. 2. The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions. Burke. Constitutionalities, bottomless - POPULARES
The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates. - POPULARNESS
The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge. - SPORADICAL
Sporadic. - SEA LEVEL
The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea. - INORGANICAL
Inorganic. Locke. - EQUIRADICAL
Equally radical. Coleridge. - WATER LEVEL
1. The level formed by the surface of still water. 2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n. - INORGANIC
Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series - TELEORGANIC
Vital; as, teleorganic functions. - METALLORGANIC
Metalorganic.