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rad^¹

/ɹæd/ UK, US

Rhymes with -æd

adjective radder · raddest

abbreviation, clipping, dated, slang Clipping of radical (“excellent”). In the Guinness Book of World-fucking-Records, man… under "Raddest Fucking Dude Alive"!
Similar: amazing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, sensational, awesomesauce, based, beatific, bewildering, blissful, celestial

noun rads

A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray, that is, 1 centigray. Near-synonyms: centigray, cGy (same physical quantity)
Similar: centigray, mul:cGy
symbol Symbol for the radian, a unit of measure for angle.
abbreviation, clipping, slang Clipping of radiator
abbreviation, slang Abbreviation of sight radius
abbreviation, clipping Clipping of radical: a political radical. The women who work in it with me are all feminists, they're all rads, two of them are black belts in karate...I mean, they're major women.

RAD^²

noun RADs

abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of role activity diagram
abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of rapid application development
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of reactive attachment disorder

proper noun

abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Radiation Assessment Detector, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
abbreviation, acronym Acronym of River Arts District, a neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The recovery is still a work in progress, given the deadly storm’s massive impact on people across Western North Carolina and its devastation of two popular Asheville neighborhoods — the RAD (“rad”), as locals call it, and nearby Biltmore Village.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: radian, super, like, great, giving, huge, enormous, giant, amazing, awesome, many, extreme, advice, terrific, give, brilliant

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adj short for radical; excellent

Deutsch	krass, irre, bombig
Русский	клёвый kljóvyj, чумовой čumovoj

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@misc{rad_2026,
  title = {rad},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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