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ultraradical en · ADJ

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Etymology

From ultra- + radical.

Meanings

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, page 98:
   • 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:

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ultraradical en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From ultra- + radical.

Meanings

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

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Synonyms

Bring radical