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radical

/ʁa.di.kal/

adjective/ʁa.di.kal/

radical

“L'idéologie islamiste radicale de Boko Haram a provoqué le déplacement de plus de deux millions de personnes dans le nord du Nigeria.” — The radical Islamist ideology of Boko Haram caused more than two million persons to be displaced in northern Nigeria.

Related: radicalement, radicalité, radicalisation, radicaliser

Learned borrowing from Late Latin rādīcālis.

noun, masculine/ʁa.di.kal/plural: radicaux

radical is masculine in French.

radical, root

Learned borrowing from Late Latin rādīcālis.