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Radical

Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.

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Similar meaning 6

Basic 84% connected

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

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Basic 84% connected

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

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Immoderate 84% connected

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate…

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Immoderate 84% connected

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate…

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New 84% connected

Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's posses…

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New 84% connected

Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's posses…

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Broader term 11

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Amount 76% connected

To go up; to ascend.

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Atom 76% connected

An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

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Character 76% connected

A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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graph 76% connected

A diagram representing data or a set of equations

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Quantity 76% connected

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

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Unit 76% connected

A single thing or person.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Narrower term 25

Allyl 76% connected

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

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Amyl 76% connected

A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

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Anarchist 76% connected

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

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Benzyl 76% connected

A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.

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Butyl 76% connected

A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.

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Cacodyl 76% connected

Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the typ…

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Carboxyl 76% connected

The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic aci…

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Chromophore 76% connected

Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

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Extremist 76% connected

A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

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Glyceryl 76% connected

A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

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Hydroxyl 76% connected

A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the…

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Leveler 76% connected

One who, or that which, levels.

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Methylene 76% connected

A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, but regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, me…

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Nihilist 76% connected

One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

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Nitrite 76% connected

A salt of nitrous acid.

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Propyl 76% connected

The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.

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Red 76% connected

. imp. & p. p. of Read.

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Revolutionary 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary ag…

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Revolutionist 76% connected

One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.

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Subversive 76% connected

Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.

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Subverter 76% connected

One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower.

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Terrorist 76% connected

One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.

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Trot 76% connected

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

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Uranyl 76% connected

The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.

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Vinyl 76% connected

The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the…

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Derivationally related 4

Base 74% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Base 74% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Revolution 74% connected

The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wh…

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Revolution 74% connected

The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wh…

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Containing whole 3

Ideogram 70% connected

An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.

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Ideograph 70% connected

Same as Ideogram.

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Molecule 70% connected

One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed to consist.

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Pertains to 1

Base 66% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Synonym 9

Basal 92% connected

Relating to, or forming, the base.

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Base 92% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Extremist 92% connected

A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

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Group 92% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Revolutionary 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary ag…

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Root 92% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Stem 92% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Theme 92% connected

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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Ultra 92% connected

Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.

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