Definition of antiradical
1
: opposed to or hostile toward radical movements or ideologies
- antiradical sentiment
- a time of antiradical hysteria in the country
2
medical
: counteracting the harmful effects of free radicals on the body
- … employing antiradical agents to halt the neurological damage triggered by oxygen radicals after strokes or injuries to the head and spinal cord …
- —Linda Marsa
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antiradicalism
or anti-radicalism play \ˌan-tē-ˈra-di-kə-ˌli-zəm, ˌan-tī-\ noun-
- A similar form of conservative antiradicalism produced the Red Scare after the bombing of the home of Mitchell Palmer, the new attorney general in 1919 …
- —Barbara Franz
