Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudoradical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-rad-i-cal
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.

noun

The intersection of the set of nonzero prime ideals of a ring.

noun

An atom or group within a molecule which behaves like a free radical due to high valence.

adj

Claiming or appearing to be politically radical, but not actually so.

Example Sentences

"He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence."
"As suggested by Weinmayr in this example, the reaction proceeds by a different mechanism, not with the formation of free radicals but rather with separation of the C — Hg bond, thus producing pseudoradicals which do not diffuse into the reaction medium."
"These pseudoradicals are not directly chain carriers in the reduction of peroxydisulfate, but they can further build up oxygen radical ions."

Etymology

From pseudo- + radical.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo-

Inflected Forms

pseudoradicals (plural) more pseudoradical (comparative) most pseudoradical (superlative)

Questions

What does pseudoradical mean?: One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
Where does pseudoradical come from?: From pseudo- + radical.

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