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radical
 
NOUN:One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures: extremist, fanatic, revolutionary, revolutionist, ultra, zealot. See EDGE, CONCERN, POLITICS.
ADJECTIVE:1. Holding especially political views that deviate drastically and fundamentally from conventional or traditional beliefs: extreme, extremist, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, revolutionary, ultra. Slang : far-out. See CONCERN, EDGE, POLITICS. 2. Arising from or going to the root or source: basal, basic, foundational, fundamental, original, primary, underlying. See SURFACE.
 
 
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