| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
| (noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
| contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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| contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
| dyadic | (adjective) of or relating to a dyad or based on two | - |
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| eradicable | (adjective) able to be eradicated or rooted out | - |
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| eradicate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| eradication | (noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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| eradicator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: exterminator, terminator |
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| fradicin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery | Synonyms: Neobiotic, neomycin |
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| ineradicable | (adjective) not able to be destroyed or rooted out | - |
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| nomadic | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, peregrine, roving, wandering |
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| nonnomadic | (adjective) not nomadic or wandering | - |
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| radical | (adjective) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root | - |
| (adjective) arising from or going to the root or source | - |
| (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: extremist, ultra |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: revolutionary |
| (noun) a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, root, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a person who has radical ideas or opinions | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | Synonyms: chemical group, group |
| (noun) an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule | Synonyms: free radical |
| radicalism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society | - |
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| radicalize | (verb) make more radical in social or political outlook | - |
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| radically | (adverb) in a radical manner | - |
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| radicchio | (noun) prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves | - |
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| radicle | (noun) (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve) | - |
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| radiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the radicle of a nerve | - |
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| saccadic | (adjective) of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation | - |
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| sporadic | (adjective) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances | - |
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| sporadically | (adverb) in a sporadic manner | Synonyms: periodically |
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| sporadicalness | (noun) The quality of being rare and scattered in occurrence. | - |
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