radically
/ˈɹædɪkli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
adv
At the root.
Example Sentences
- "two radically different political groups"
- "The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees."
- ""Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word."
- "This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same."
Etymology
Etymology tree English radical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds Proto-Italic *wrādīks Latin rādīxlbor. English radix Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al ▲ Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English radically From radical + -ly, or from radix (“root”) + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more radically (comparative)
most radically (superlative)