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Radical vs. Extremist — What's the Difference?

Radical vs. Extremist — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Radical and Extremist

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Radical

Arising from or going to a root or source; basic
Proposed a radical solution to the problem.

Extremist

A person who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.

Radical

Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme or drastic
A radical change in diet.

Extremist

A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.

Radical

Relating to or advocating fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions
Radical politics.
A radical political theorist.
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Extremist

Holding extreme views, especially on a political or religious subject.

Radical

(Medicine) Relating to or being surgery that is extreme or drastic in an effort to eradicate all existing or potential disease
Radical hysterectomy.

Extremist

Of or relating to extremism.

Radical

(Linguistics) Of or being a root
A radical form.

Extremist

A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

Radical

Of, relating to, or arising from a root
Radical hairs.

Extremist

A person who holds extreme views

Radical

Arising from the base of a stem or from a below-ground stem or rhizome
Radical leaves.

Extremist

(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm;
Extremist political views
Radical opinions on education
An ultra conservative

Radical

(Slang) Excellent; wonderful.

Radical

One who advocates fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions
Radicals seeking to overthrow the social order.

Radical

(Mathematics) The root of a quantity as indicated by the radical sign.

Radical

Symbol R An atom or a group of atoms with one unpaired electron.

Radical

(Linguistics) See root1.

Radical

Any of the basic Chinese characters that are combined to form more complex characters.

Radical

Any of the traditional set of basic strokes or groups of strokes that make up Chinese characters and are used to classify and organize them in dictionaries.

Radical

Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
His beliefs are radical.

Radical

Pertaining to a root of a plant.

Radical

Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.

Radical

Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.

Radical

Of or pertaining to the root of a word.

Radical

Produced using the root of the tongue.

Radical

Involving free radicals.

Radical

(math) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
A radical quantity; a radical sign

Radical

Excellent; awesome.
That was a radical jump!

Radical

A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).

Radical

A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.

Radical

A person with radical opinions.

Radical

(arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).

Radical

(linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.

Radical

(linguistics)Celtic In Celtic languages, refers to the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.

Radical

(linguistics)Semitic linguistics In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.

Radical

(chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.

Radical

(organic chemistry) A free radical.

Radical

Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or \sqrt{I}, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xn ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.

Radical

Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".

Radical

The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.

Radical

(number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.

Radical

Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.

Radical

Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.
The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.

Radical

Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.

Radical

Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.

Radical

Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.

Radical

A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.
The words we at present make use of, and understand only by common agreement, assume a new air and life in the understanding, when you trace them to their radicals, where you find every word strongly stamped with nature; full of energy, meaning, character, painting, and poetry.

Radical

One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; - opposed to conservative.
In politics they [the Independents] were, to use the phrase of their own time, "Root-and-Branch men," or, to use the kindred phrase of our own, Radicals.

Radical

A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.
As a general rule, the metallic atoms are basic radicals, while the nonmetallic atoms are acid radicals.

Radical

Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; - called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.

Radical

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

Radical

An atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule than has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule;
In the body free radicals are high-energy particles that ricochet wildly and damage cells

Radical

A person who has radical ideas or opinions

Radical

A character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

Radical

A sign placed in front of an expression to denote that a root is to be extracted

Radical

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
Thematic vowels are part of the stem

Radical

(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm;
Extremist political views
Radical opinions on education
An ultra conservative

Radical

Markedly new or introducing radical change;
A revolutionary discovery
Radical political views

Radical

Arising from or going to the root;
A radical flaw in the plan

Radical

Of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root;
A radical verb form

Radical

Especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem;
Basal placentation
Radical leaves

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