radicals

• agitator
• anarchist
• extremist
• extremists
• fanatic
• fanatical
• far-out
• firebrand
• insurgent
• leftist
• militant
• profound
• progressive
• rebel
• reformer
• renegade
• revolutionaries
• revolutionary
• rioter
• subversive
• sweeping
• uncompromising
• violent

• conservatives
• moderate
• moderates

• noun
  1. (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).
  2. (historical: early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
  3. A person with radical opinions.
  4. A root (of a number or quantity).
  5. 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.
  6. In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
  7. A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
  8. A free radical.
  9. (commutative algebra, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or
  10. sqrt{I}, 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.
  11. (of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
  12. (of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
  13. The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.

• The political debate intensified as radicals clashed with moderates over policy.
• Some argue that certain online forums serve as breeding grounds for extremist radicals.
• The chemist studied the reactivity of different chemical radicals in the laboratory.
• The history class explored the influence of ideological radicals on social movements.
• Critics warned about the potential dangers of embracing religious radicals within the community.

neophiliacs

• extremists
• liberals
• radicals
• reformists
• revolutionaries

ultraists

• addict
• agitator
• anarchist
• bigot
• conservatives
• devotee
• enthusiast
• extremist
• extremists
• fanatic
• fiend
• firebrand
• freak
• insurgent
• leftist
• maniac
• militant
• nut
• progressive
• radical
• radicals
• rebel
• reformer
• renegade
• revolutionaries
• revolutionary
• rioter
• subversive
• visionary
• zealot

young Turks

• agitators
• extremists
• insurgents
• radicals
• rebels
• revolutionaries
• revolutionists

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