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ultraradical

ultraradical adjective: extremely radical, especially in politics.

Adjective

ultraradical (comparative more ultraradical, superlative most ultraradical)

  1. Extremely radical, especially in politics.
    • An ultraradical Wahhabi fringe group was headed by Ayub Omarov (aka Ayub Astrakhansky), a Dagestani Avar from the Tsumadinskii raion. He resided in Astrakhan, and organized his ultraradical group among the Dagestani diaspora in that area.2015 [2010], Robert Bruce Ware, Enver Kisriev, “The Islamic Factor: Revival and Radicalism”, in Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance in the North Caucasus, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN...
    • The Bolsheviks (the name derives from the Russian for big, or majority) were the ultra-radical faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and the direct ancestor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker

Noun

ultraradical (plural ultraradicals)

  1. A root of the polynomial x⁵ + x + a, where a is a complex number.
    Synonyms:
    Bring radical
  2. An extreme political radical.

Synonyms of ultraradical

Forms of ultraradical

Adjective
comparativemore ultraradical
superlativemost ultraradical
alternative formultra-radical
Noun
pluralultraradicals

Origin of ultraradical

From ultra- + radical.

Questions about ultraradical

What does ultraradical mean?
Ultraradical means extremely radical, especially in politics.
What part of speech is ultraradical?
Ultraradical can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ultraradical in the dictionary

  1. ultraquiet
  2. ultrarace
  3. ultraraces
  4. ultraracism
  5. ultraracist
  6. ultraradical
  7. ultraradicalism
  8. ultraradicals
  9. ultrarapid
  10. ultrarapidly
  11. ultrarare

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