Synonyms of the word

radical

• adj. Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
• adj. (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
• adj. Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
• adj. Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
• adj. (linguistics, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
• adj. (linguistics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
• adj. (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
• adj. (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
• adj. (slang, 1980s & 1990s) Excellent; awesome.
• n. (historical: 19th-century Britain) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone…
• n. (historical: early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring…
• n. A person with radical opinions.
• n. (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
• n. (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character…
• n. (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a…
• n. (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
• n. (organic chemistry) A free radical.

atom

• n. (chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical…
• n. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible…
• n. (now generally regarded figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
• n. (now historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
• n. A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
• n. A very small amount; a whit.
• n. (computing, programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
• n. (mathematics, algebra) A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements.
• n. (mathematics, set theory) An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.

basal

• adj. basic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
• adj. (anatomy) associated with the base of an organism or structure.
• adj. (medicine) a minimal level that is necessary, such as a minimum dose of a drug.
• adj. (chiefly systematics) In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier…
• n. base, bottom, minimum.
• n. (anatomy) Any basal structure or part.

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

basic

• adj. Necessary, essential for life or some process.
• adj. Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
• adj. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
• adj. (slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
• n. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
• n. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
• n. (military) Basic training.

character

• n. A being involved in the action of a story.
• n. A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
• n. A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
• n. Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
• n. A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially…
• n. A written or printed symbol, or letter.
• n. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
• n. (computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing…
• n. (informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
• n. (mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
• n. Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
• n. (dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
• n. (dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.
• v. (obsolete) To write (using characters); To describe.

descriptor

• n. That which describes; a word, phrase, etc. serving as a description.

extremist

• n. A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.
• adj. Holding extreme views, especially on a political subject.
• adj. Of or relating to extremism.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

grapheme

• n. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet…
• n. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

group

• n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
• n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element,…
• n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
• n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
• n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
• n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
• n. (chemistry) A functional group.
• n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
• n. (military) An air force formation.
• n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
• n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution…
• n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
• n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely…
• n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing…
• v. (transitive) To put together to form a group.
• v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

immoderate

• adj. Not moderate; excessive.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

new

• adj. Recently made, or created.
• adj. Additional; recently discovered.
• adj. Current or later, as opposed to former.
• adj. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously…
• adj. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
• adj. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
• adj. Newborn.
• adj. Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
• adj. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
• adj. Recently arrived or appeared.
• adj. Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
• adj. (of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun.
• adv. Newly (especially in composition).
• adv. As new; from scratch.
• n. Things that are new.
• n. (Australia) A kind of light beer.
• n. (in the plural) See news.
• v. (obsolete) To make new; to recreate; to renew.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

revolutionary

• adj. Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution.
• adj. pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset.
• adj. (sciences) pertaining to something that revolves.
• n. A revolutionist; a person who revolts.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

signifier

• n. Something or someone that signfies, makes something more significant or important.
• n. (linguistics) The sound of spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

stem

• n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• n. A branch of a family.
• n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar,…
• n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy,…
• n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
• n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of…
• n. (slang) A person's leg.
• n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
• n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
• n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of…
• n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
• n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
• n. (slang) A crack pipe.
• v. To remove the stem from.
• v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
• v. To descend in a family line.
• v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
• v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
• v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
• v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
• v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed…
• n. Alternative form of steem.
• n. Alternative form of STEM.

theme

• n. A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
• n. A recurring idea; a motif.
• n. (dated) An essay written for school.
• n. (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
• n. (film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character,…
• n. (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment…
• n. (grammar) The stem of a word.
• n. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
• n. (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
• n. (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
• n. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
• v. (transitive) To give a theme to.
• v. (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

ultra

• adj. Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.
• n. An ultraroyalist in France.
• n. An extremist.
• n. (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist…
• n. (athletics) An ultramarathon.
• n. (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
• n. (usually capitalised) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information…

unit

• n. (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
• n. The number one.
• n. Clipping of international unit.
• n. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
• n. (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
• n. (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table…
• n. (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
• n. (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used.…
• n. (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit…
• n. (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
• n. (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
• n. (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of…
• n. (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive…
• n. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
• n. (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
• n. (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment…
• n. (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
• adj. For each unit.
• adj. (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.