Radical Synonyms and Antonyms

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Advocating extreme change
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fanatical
  2. rebellious
  3. revolutionary
  4. extremist
  5. militant
  6. rabid
  7. insurgent
  8. iconoclastic
  9. advanced
  10. forward
  11. insurrectionary
  12. progressive
  13. revisionist
  14. abolitionist
  15. leftist
  16. communistic
  17. left-wing
  18. uncompromising
  19. intransigent
  20. recalcitrant
  21. mutinous
  22. recusant
  23. subversive
  24. seditious
  25. riotous
  26. lawless
  27. ultraconservative
  28. racist
  29. white-supremacist
  30. insubordinate
  31. anarchistic
  32. nihilistic
  33. Bolshevistic
  34. communist
  35. socialist
  36. liberal
  37. immoderate
  38. heretical
  39. freethinking
  40. avant-garde
  41. jacobinic
  42. ultraist
  43. ultraistic
  44. ultra
  45. red
  46. pink
Antonyms:
  1. conservative
  2. derivative
  3. moderate
  4. slight
  5. trifling
  6. reformist
  7. gradualist
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One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. extremist
  2. revolutionary
  3. root
  4. ultra
  5. fanatic
  6. anarchist
  7. revolutionist
  8. leftist
  9. firebrand
  10. nihilist
  11. jacobin
  12. rebel
  13. iconoclast
  14. subversive
  15. ultraist
  16. renegade
  17. nonconformist
  18. militant
  19. insurgent
  20. objector
  21. insurrectionist
  22. socialist
  23. communist
  24. pacifist
  25. syndicalist
  26. revolter
  27. mutineer
  28. agitator
  29. sans-culotte
  30. bolshevik
  31. basal
  32. bolshevist
  33. anarcho-syndicalist
  34. basic
  35. cardinal
  36. crusader
  37. individualist
  38. complete
  39. fascist
  40. drastic
  41. racist
  42. essential
  43. white-supremacist
  44. misfit
  45. etymon
  46. free-radical
  47. member of the lunatic fringe
  48. extreme
  49. eccentric
  50. freethinker
  51. rightist
  52. yippie
  53. hippie
  54. fundamental
  55. black nationalist
  56. demonstrator
  57. peace marcher
  58. rioter
  59. fifth-columnist
  60. liberal
  61. left-winger
  62. root-word
  63. right-winger
  64. maximalist
  65. ultraconservative
  66. John Bircher
  67. pinko
  68. red
  69. primal
  70. primary
  71. radix
  72. zealot
  73. base
  74. sansculotte
  75. septembrist
  76. young-turk
  77. stem
  78. theme
Antonyms:
  1. conservative
  2. derivative
  3. moderate
  4. slight
  5. trifling
  6. minor
  7. extrinsic
  8. nonessential
  9. superficial
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. group
  2. chemical group
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  • He was prominent as a radical in all measures in opposition to the British government, and was a member of the first Virginia committee of correspondence.

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