RADICALLY Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

radically

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Definition of radically

as in completely

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Recent Examples of radically Testing across different fields The team tested the technique across two radically different engineering fields, publishing their findings in Nature Communications Materials and Scripta Materialia. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026 The dining room has been radically reinvented by San Francisco designer Jon de la Cruz. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Susskind and other teams have made progress on holographic de Sitter models that differ radically from AdS/CFT. — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026 The innovation in loans, payments, budgeting and investing was not a radically different approach to money, but rather speed and convenience. — Antoine Sallis, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for radically

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The third, Surrender, is a massage performed in water, in which the buoyancy and warmth allow the body to completely relax and let go.

— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2026
What’s different about this style is that its uppers are completely decorated with small, shimmering crystal details in a silvery, light-catching finish.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of completely

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There’s no winking at the audience, no sense of camp or parody, just a lot of appealing interactions, plus some wholly superfluous tertiary plots added to expand the story to series length.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Buck and Aikman made the leap from Fox in 2022, and while Bristol was nimble in hashing out a new deal with the lead mic, the color analyst’s contract is (obviously) a wholly separate issue.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of wholly

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Technology is at the heart of facials, especially, from a skin analysis machine and facial sculpting wand to a cryotherapy mask that was positively icy—but also awesome—at -4 degrees Fahrenheit.

— Kathryn Romeyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Guerra also said that his recent fundraising had been going positively.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of positively

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Adding power without new wind farms One of the more interesting possibilities is that high-altitude turbines could eventually be added to existing wind farms rather than requiring entirely new sites.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
The first attempt to start Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia ended in confusion as cars crawled around the Sepang track at slow speeds or stopped entirely as drivers and teams tried to restart their systems.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of entirely

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Charles — my heart hurts for Charles, dead on his farm, wealthy at the time of his passing, and with utterly no one to share it with except a brother who for ten years never wrote him a letter.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Yet these anachronisms seem to make perfect sense, making these 500-year-old poems read like swift, contemporary lyrics, timeless yet utterly urgent.

— Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of utterly

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Classes were totally or partially suspended on Tuesday at 891 schools, according to the Education Ministry.

— NICOLAS GARRIGA, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Us Weekly, which used to be a quasi-People magazine and very friendly, turned into something totally different and gossipy.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of totally

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Having absolutely no chance of playing past the 162 and getting to plan your offseason appropriately.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
But neither source absolutely predicts whether 2026 will be a record-warm year, the spokesperson said, citing NOAA physical scientist Russell Vose.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of absolutely

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Resnikoff fully inhabits the role of Jaku, giving him a distinctive and consistent voice, posture and temperament.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Officials said during the Oval Office event that building the pipeline will take three years and that exports of liquified natural gas would begin two years after that -- but that was dependent on financing coming through fully.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026

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