radically

Adverb

Meaning

In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.

Without derivation; primitively; essentially.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

just anciently completely fully primarily extremely quite entirely greatly radical purely substantially totally perfectly altogether
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Antonyms

little future comparatively anciently commonly bit
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Related terms

root radical

Phrases with the word

radically different radically new even more radically free radically radically changed

Anagrams

cardially

Examples

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Joan Didion

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms. Raymond Williams

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. Charlie Sheen

Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it. Georges Bataille

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results. Hannah Arendt

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. Norbert Wiener

Close letter words and terms

radicalize radicalized radicalizer radically centrist radically different radically new