radical
Of or pertaining to the root of a plant.
Other meanings
Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
Produced using the root of the tongue.
Synonyms
- basal
Related words
- antiradical
- biradical
- counterradical
- deradical
- dudical
- equiradical
- extraradical
- hyperradical
- intraradical
- multiradical
- nonradical
- postradical
Word history
From Latin "rādīcālis" (of or pertaining to the root, having roots, radical).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “radical” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.