Synonyms Dictionary
3. glow, beam, scintillate, twinkle, glitter, sparkle, light up. radical, adj. 1. fundamental, rudimentary, constitutional, basic, basal, basilar, elementary, elemental, primary; main, principal, cardinal; vital, essential, necessary, requisite; supporting, substratal, substra-tive, underlying; uncompounded, simple, primitive.
2. complete, total, entire, absolute, unmitigated, unqualified, whole, universal, definitive, unabridged, full, plenary, consummate, sheer, utter, perfect, positive, downright, out-and-out; comprehensive, exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing, sweeping, solid, all-inclusive, all-embracing; extreme, excessive, immoderate, inordinate, undue, exorbitant, unreasonable, extravagant, intemperate; drastic, severe, stringent, strict, intransigent, exacting; ultra, advanced, over-zealous, fanatical, rabid, hysterical, frantic, frenzied, frenetic, raving, possessed.
3. revolutionary, rebellious, rebel, Jacobinic, Jacobinical, insurgent, insurrectionary, seditious, iconoclastic, underground, freethinking, avant-garde, nonconformist, anarchistic, nihilistic; leftist, leftwing, red, pink, Derog. pinko, Bolshivistic, Communistic, commie.
4. innate, inherent, intrinsic, indigenous, ingenerate, immanent, indwelling, instinctive, inner, subsistent, deep-seated, ingrained, rooted, implanted, native, natural, organic; inherited, hereditary, inbred, inborn, congenital, connate.
-n. 5. extremist, fanatic, immoderate, ultra, ultra-ist, zealot, raver, radical reformer, sans-culotte, Politics. Jacobin; nihilist, anarchist; avant-gardist, freethinker; rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist, revolter, insurgent, mutineer, firebrand, rioter, iconoclast, fifth columnist, U.S. Politics, weatherman, yippie; leftist, leftwinger, leftwing extremist, Inf. Wobbly, Communist, Bolshevik, Red, commie, U.S. Sl. pink, U.S. Sl. Derog. pinko. radically, adv. 1. fundamentally, rudimentarily, constitutionally, basically, elementarily, elementally, primarily; mainly, principally, chiefly; vitally, essentially, necessarily.
2. completely, totally, entirely, absolutely, without doubt, wholly, consummately, utterly, perfectly, positively, extremely, in the extreme, most, immeasurably, incalculably, indefinitely, infinitely, beyond compare or comparison, beyond measure; thoroughly, comprehensively, solidly, unconditionally, unequivocally, downright, dead; excessively, immoderately, inordinately, unduly, exorbitantly, unreasonably, extravagantly, intemperately, beyond all bounds.
3. innately, inherently, intrinsically, indigenously, immanently, instinctively, natively, naturally, organically; congenitally, hereditarily, connately. radio, n. 1. radiotelegraph, radiotelephone; radio set, receiver, console, cabinet, old stand-up radio, Jocular. Marconi, Stromberg-Carlson, Chiefly Brit. wireless; crystal set; transistor, portable or portable radio, pocket radio; AM-FM radio, CB or citizens band radio, police radio, shortwave radio, car radio, clock radio.
-v. 2. radiocast, broadcast, transmit, air, put on the air, shortwave, beam. radiograph, n. x-ray, x-ray photograph, roentgenogram, skiagraph, negative, picture; atinogram. raffish, adj. 1. vulgar, tasteless, crude, uncouth, gross, coarse, boorish, loutish; unrefined, ill-bred, unmannerly, uncultured, uncultivated, inelegant; tawdry, gaudy, showy, cheap, flashy, garish, meretricious; trashy, common, ignoble, base.
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