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whole
English
Alternative forms
- hole (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English h?l (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”) (compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil), from Proto-Indo-European *kóylos (“healthy, whole”). Compare Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (c?l?, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, was for disambiguation with hole, and was absent in Scots.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??l/, [h???], [h???]
- (US) IPA(key): /ho?l/, [ho??]
- Homophone: hole
- Rhymes: -??l
Adjective
whole (comparative wholer or more whole, superlative wholest or most whole)
- Entire, undivided.
- Synonyms: total; see also Thesaurus:entire
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- Used as an intensifier.
- I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
- 2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins (?ISBN):
- There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by. A lone grassy hill overlooks it all, well above the flood line, big enough to pitch a whole mess of tents [on].
- 2011, Keith Maillard, Looking Good: Difficulty at the Beginning, Brindle and Glass (?ISBN):
- I'm thinking, thanks a whole fuck of a lot, Robert. You could have laid that on me weeks ago.
- Sound, uninjured, healthy.
- Synonyms: hale, well; see also Thesaurus:healthy
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, X, lines 5-6
- Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
- (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
- (mining) As yet unworked.
Translations
Adverb
whole (comparative more whole, superlative most whole)
- (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:completely
Translations
Noun
whole (plural wholes)
- Something complete, without any parts missing.
- Synonyms: entireness, totality; see also Thesaurus:entirety
- Meronym: part
- An entirety.
Translations
Derived terms
Further reading
- All and whole — Linguapress online English grammar
References
- whole at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Howle, howel
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radical
English
Etymology
From French radical, from Late Latin r?d?c?lis (“of or pertaining to the root, having roots, radical”), from Latin r?dix (“root”); see radix.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?d??k-?l, IPA(key): /??æd?k?l/
- Homophone: radicle
Adjective
radical (comparative more radical, superlative most radical)
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.
- Synonym: fundamental
- Antonyms: ignorable, trivial
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- Coordinate terms: coronal, dorsal, labial, laryngeal
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- (slang, 1980s & 1990s) Excellent; awesome.
Synonyms
- (linguistics, in reference to words): primitive
Antonyms
- (linguistics, in reference to words): derivative, derived
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
radical (plural radicals)
- (historical, 19th-century Britain) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
- (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or , such that an element x ? R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xn ? I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
Derived terms
Related terms
- nilradical
Translations
References
- radical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- radical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- "radical" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 251.
Further reading
- Radical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of an ideal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of a ring on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of a module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of an integer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Radical of an ideal on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- Ideal Radical on Wolfram MathWorld
Anagrams
- aldaric, cardial
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /r?.di?kal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ra.di?kal/
Adjective
radical (masculine and feminine plural radicals)
- radical
Derived terms
- radicalment
- radicalisme
- radicalitzar
Noun
radical m or f (plural radicals)
- radical
Further reading
- “radical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “radical” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “radical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “radical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin r?d?c?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.di.kal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Homophones: radicale, radicales
Adjective
radical (feminine singular radicale, masculine plural radicaux, feminine plural radicales)
- radical
Noun
radical m (plural radicaux)
- (linguistics, grammar) radical, root
Further reading
- “radical” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Pronunciation
Noun
radical m (plural radicais)
- radical (in various senses)
Derived terms
- radicalismo
- radicalizar
- radicalmente
Further reading
- “radical” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?ad??i?kaw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /??ði?ka?/
- Hyphenation: ra?di?cal
Noun
radical m (plural radicais)
- (linguistic morphology) root (primary lexical unit of a word)
- Synonym: raiz
Noun
radical m, f (plural radicais)
- radical (person holding unorthodox views)
- Synonym: extremista
Adjective
radical m or f (plural radicais, comparable)
- radical (favouring fundamental change)
- drastic; extreme
- (Brazil, slang) excellent; awesome; thrilling
- (sports) extreme (dangerous)
Derived terms
- radicalismo
- radicalizar
- radicalmente
Further reading
- “radical” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Adjective
radical m or n (feminine singular radical?, masculine plural radicali, feminine and neuter plural radicale)
- radical
Declension
Related terms
- radicalist
- radicaliza
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin r?d?c?lis or Latin r?d?x + Spanish suffix -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /radi?kal/, [ra.ð?i?kal]
- Hyphenation: ra?di?cal
Adjective
radical (plural radicales)
- radical, seismic
Derived terms
- radicalismo
- radicalizar
- radicalmente
Noun
radical m (plural radicales)
- radical
Derived terms
Further reading
- “radical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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- what radicalized you
- what radical husbands do
- what radical means
- what radical function is represented in the graph
- what radical form
- what radicalized you podcast
- what radicalized the french revolution
- what radicals are rational
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