radical — meaning in English
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English meaning
- fringe noun A decorative border of hanging threads or tassels.
- radical adjective Favoring extreme, fundamental change, especially in politics or society.
- root noun The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws in water and nutrients.
- stem noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
Senses
radical is used for these senses in English:
- fringe (also, attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- root (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- stem A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
fringe — full definition
- noun A decorative border of hanging threads or tassels.
- noun The edge or outer part of something, away from the main or central area.
- noun British English: hair that is cut to hang down over the forehead (American English: bangs).
- adj Outside the mainstream; unconventional or extreme.
- verb To form a border along the edge of something.
radical — full definition
- adjective Favoring extreme, fundamental change, especially in politics or society.
- adjective Thorough and far-reaching; affecting the most basic or essential part of something.
- noun A person who holds extreme or fundamentally reforming political views.
- noun In chemistry, a group of atoms that behaves as a single unit in reactions (often short for "free radical").