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rad·i·cal  (rd-kl)
adj.
1. Arising from or going to a root or source; basic: proposed a radical solution to the problem.
2. Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme: radical opinions on education.
3. Favoring or effecting fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions: radical political views.
4. Linguistics Of or being a root: a radical form.
5. Botany Arising from the root or its crown: radical leaves.
6. Slang Excellent; wonderful.
n.
1. One who advocates fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions: radicals seeking to overthrow the social order.
2. Mathematics The root of a quantity as indicated by the radical sign.
3. Symbol R An atom or a group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron.
4. Linguistics See root1.

[Middle English, of a root, from Late Latin rdclis, having roots, from Latin rdx, rdc-, root; see wrd- in Indo-European roots.]

radi·cal·ly adv.
radi·cal·ness n.

radically [ˈrædɪkəlɪ]
adv
thoroughly; completely; fundamentally to alter radically
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.radically - in a radical manner; "she took a radically different approach"
Translations
radically [ˈrædɪkəlɪ] ADV [differ, change, improve, reduce, affect] → radicalmente, de forma radical; [different, changed, new] → radicalmente
to disagree with sb radicallyestar en total desacuerdo con algn
there's something radically wrong with his kneehay algo en su rodilla que no marcha bien en absoluto
his assessment of the situation had been radically wrongsu valoración de la situación había sido totalmente equivocada
radically [ˈrædɪkəli] adv (= fundamentally) [change, alter] → radicalement; [different, better] → radicalement
radically
adv change, differ, improveradikal, grundlegend; there’s something radically wrong with thishier stimmt etwas ganz und gar nicht
radically [ˈrædɪklɪ] advradicalmente
radically [ˈrædɪklɪ] advradicalmente


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In short, he was taking an interest in the game, although a radically different interest from what he had taken with Skipper.
had once undertaken to erect a cabin in some remote part of it, but for some reason had abandoned the enterprise and constructed his present hermaphrodite habitation, half residence and half groggery, at the roadside, upon an extreme corner of his estate; as far away as possible, as if on purpose to show how radically he had changed his mind.
It must be by this time evident to all men of reflection, who can divest themselves of the prepossessions of preconceived opinions, that it is a system so radically vicious and unsound, as to admit not of amendment but by an entire change in its leading features and characters.
 
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