ultraradical

English

Alternative forms

• ultra-radical

Etymology

From ultra- +‎ radical.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

ultraradical (comparative more ultraradical, superlative most ultraradical)

1. Extremely radical, especially in politics.
   • 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, page 98:

     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 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     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.

Noun

ultraradical (plural ultraradicals)

1. (algebra) A root of the polynomial x⁵ + x + a, where a is a complex number.

   Synonym: Bring radical

2. An extreme political radical.