| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fundamental, basic |
| Synonyms: | basal, bottom, cardinal, constitutional, deep-seated, essential, foundational, inherent, innate, intrinsic, meat-and-potatoes, native, natural, organic, original, primal, primary, primitive, profound, thoroughgoing, underlying, vital |
| Antonyms: | extrinsic, nonessential, superficial |
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deviating by extremes |
| Synonyms: | advanced, anarchistic, complete, entire, excessive, extremist, fanatical, far-out, freethinking, iconoclastic, immoderate, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, intransigent, lawless, leftist, militant, mutinous, nihilistic, progressive, rabid, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, severe, sweeping, thorough, ultra, ultraist, uncompromising, violent, way out |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who advocates significant, often extreme change |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, avant-garde, extremist, fanatic, firebrand, freethinker, iconoclast, insurgent, insurrectionist, left-winger, leftist, militant, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, objector, pacifist, progressive, rebel, reformer, renegade, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, secessionist, subversive, ultraist |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | advanced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ahead in position, time, manner |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, breakthrough, cutting-edge, excellent, exceptional, extreme, first, foremost, forward, higher, late, leading, leading-edge, liberal, precocious, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art*, unconventional |
| Antonyms: | after, behind |
| Main Entry: | agent provocateur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret agent |
| Synonyms: | agitator, firebrand, goad, incendiary, instigator, intelligence agent, noncooperator, operative, provocateur, provocative agent, provoker, rabble-rouser, radical, ringleader, spark, spy, troublemaker |
| Main Entry: | agitator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who disturbs, causes trouble |
| Synonyms: | adjy, advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fomenter, heretic, incendiary, inciter, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, troublemaker, wave maker, zealot |
| Main Entry: | avant-garde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional, forward-looking |
| Synonyms: | beat*, experimental, head*, hip*, innovative, lead, leading-edge, liberal, new, new wave, pioneering, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art, vanguard |
| Antonyms: | conservative, conventional |
| Main Entry: | basic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elementary, fundamental |
| Synonyms: | basal, capital, central, chief, elemental, essential, indispensable, inherent, intrinsic, key, main, necessary, primary, primitive, principal, radical, substratal, underlying, vital |
| Antonyms: | additional, extra, inessential, nonessential, outside, peripheral, secondary |
| Main Entry: | beatnik |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncoventional, free-sprited person |
| Synonyms: | Bohemian, beat, demonstrator, dropout, flower child, hippie, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, peacenik, protester, radical |
| Main Entry: | bottom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowest; fundamental |
| Synonyms: | basal, base, basement, basic, foundational, ground, last, lowermost, lowest, meat-and-potatoes, nethermost, primary, radical, rock-bottom, underlying, undermost |
| Antonyms: | highest, top, unnecessary |
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