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radical

radical

adjective rrah-dee-KAHL Less Common

Usage Note

Radical carries both a political sense (extreme) and a neutral mathematical sense (related to a root or radical symbol). In everyday speech it increasingly means 'drastic' or 'total', as in un cambio radical. The plural is radicales and the noun form is radicalismo.

Examples

"Necesitamos un cambio radical."

Natural Translation

We need a radical change.

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