Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Extremely radical; occupying the extreme radical position, as in politics.

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  • noun algebra A root of the polynomial x5 + x + a, where a is a complex number.
  • noun An extreme political radical.

Etymologies

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ultra- +‎ radical

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Examples

  • He removed the malignant lumps locally with a minor operation i.e., without resorting to radical or ultraradical surgery.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The radical mastectomy had thus edged into the “superradical” and then into the “ultraradical,” an extraordinarily morbid, disfiguring procedure in which surgeons removed the breast, the pectoral muscles, the axillary nodes, the chest wall, and occasionally the ribs, parts of the sternum, the clavicle, and the lymph nodes inside the chest.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • He removed the malignant lumps locally with a minor operation i.e., without resorting to radical or ultraradical surgery.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The radical mastectomy had thus edged into the “superradical” and then into the “ultraradical,” an extraordinarily morbid, disfiguring procedure in which surgeons removed the breast, the pectoral muscles, the axillary nodes, the chest wall, and occasionally the ribs, parts of the sternum, the clavicle, and the lymph nodes inside the chest.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • He removed the malignant lumps locally with a minor operation i.e., without resorting to radical or ultraradical surgery.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The radical mastectomy had thus edged into the “superradical” and then into the “ultraradical,” an extraordinarily morbid, disfiguring procedure in which surgeons removed the breast, the pectoral muscles, the axillary nodes, the chest wall, and occasionally the ribs, parts of the sternum, the clavicle, and the lymph nodes inside the chest.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The authors also singled out "cellar mosques" which had no link to official Islam and whose ultraradical members serve as a kind of "thought police." posted by GayandRight @ 10:26 AM

    Integration problems in Malmo.... GayandRight 2009

  • Saeed Ahmed Abdullah was a devout follower of the ultraradical Wahhabi sect of Islam.

    Consent to Kill Vince Flynn 2005

  • Saeed Ahmed Abdullah was a devout follower of the ultraradical Wahhabi sect of Islam.

    Consent to Kill Mitch, Rapp 06 2005

  • All of Ruth's life had been spent in contact with the abnormal, the ultraradical.

    Youth Challenges Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

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