Radical
Radical adjective - Being very far from the center of public opinion.
Threatening and radical are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Radical".
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Giving signs of immediate occurrence.
Radical and threatening are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Radical" instead an adjective "Threatening".
Both words in one sentence
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One flashback shows her threatening to lay a smackdown on the TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) who insulted and made transphobic remarks at Nomi.
Source: Violently Protective Girlfriend -
Later, he becomes a Degraded Bossnote Yes, it's a video game trope, and yes, it totally applies here anyway, and King Radical steps in as a world-threatening greatest enemy.
- Cursed with Awesome: Someone born with a sufficiently high level of innate magical talent will eventually be destroyed by that talent, unless they take radical steps — also themselves life-threatening — to channel it.
Source: Literature / Commonweal
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