as s uming You're close, but they're not synonyms. --------- radical 4 : one that is radical: as a : one that advocates a decided and often extreme change from existing, usual, or traditional views, habits, conditions, or methods <a literary radical at heart, he was fighting ... Spiller> <regarded as something of a radical in anthropological circles ...
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