radical

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more radical

Superlative

most radical

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

radicals

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Of or pertaining to the root of a plant.

2. 2.Of or pertaining to the root of a word.

3. 3.Produced using the root of the tongue.

4. 4.Relating to a radix or mathematical root.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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

2. 2.In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character used to index it. Often, but not always, this is also the portion indicating meaning; compare the following sense.

   • The boy recognised the Chinese characters, though the calligraphy looked a bit strange, as if drawn by someone who had seen them and copied them out radical by radical without knowing what they meant.

3. 3.In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.

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

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