RADICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radically mean? 

• RADICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb RADICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a radical manner

  Familiarity information: RADICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a radical manner

Context example:

she took a radically different approach

Pertainym:

radical (markedly new or introducing radical change)

 Context examples 

Although both bodies originated in the outer solar system, Triton was captured by Neptune and has undergone a radically different thermal history than Pluto.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

Nothing repeats exactly in life (other planets will have radically changed position), but if you can recall something, you might have an inkling of what could come up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A five-year, $48 million program which seeks to stimulate development of radically new technologies in cancer care that can transform what is now impossible into the realm of the possible for detecting, diagnosing, and intervening in cancer at its earliest stages of development.

(NCI Unconventional Innovations Program, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers have demonstrated how properties of graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon - enable ultra-wide bandwidth communications and low power consumption to radically change the way data is transmitted across the optical communications systems.

(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)

It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dr Worthington, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, said: “Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark. What the people don’t realise is that Ea’s nine-line message is a trick: it is a sequence of sounds that can be understood in radically different ways, like English ‘ice cream’ and ‘I scream’.###!!!###

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)