radically

radical +‎ -ly or radix (“root”) +‎ -ally

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radically (comparative more radically, superlative most radically)

1. In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.

   two radically different political groups

   • 2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, The Guardian‎:

     The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.

2. At the root.

   "Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word.

   • 1788, Jonathan Edwards, in a report to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences:

     This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same.

• radically centrist

• radical
• root

• cardially