RADICAL
- favoring drastic reforms
- basic
- person with radical ideas
- atom or group of atoms behaving as a unit
- a group of atoms that acts as a unit in chemical compounds [n RADICALS]
- of, relating to, or proceeding from a root as
- or growing from the root of a plant radical tubers
- owing from the base of a stem, from a rootlike stem, or from a stem that does not rise above the ground radical leaves
- or relating to a mathematical root
- signed to remove the root of a disease or all diseased and potentially diseased tissue radical surgery radical mastectomy
- or relating to the origin fundamental
- a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds [n -S]