radioactive

See also: radioactivé

English

Etymology

Adaptation of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French radioactif, from radio- +‎ active.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹeɪdioʊˈaktɪv/
• IPA^(key): /ˌɹeɪdioʊˈæktɪv/
• Rhymes: -æktɪv

Adjective

radioactive (not comparable)

1. Exhibiting radioactivity.
2. (figurative, rare) Dangerous and disgusting (particularly of ideas).

   Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.

Derived terms

• nonradioactive
• radioactively

Translations

exhibiting radioactivity

• Afrikaans: radioaktief
• Armenian: ռադիոակտիվ (hy) (ṙadioaktiv), ճառագայթաակտիվ (hy) (čaṙagaytʻaaktiv)
• Asturian: radioactivu
• Basque: erradioaktibo
• Belarusian: радыёакты́ўны (radyjoaktýŭny)
• Bulgarian: радиоакти́вен (radioaktíven)
• Catalan: radioactiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放射性的 (zh) (fàngshèxìng de)

• Czech: radioaktivní (cs)
• Danish: radioaktiv
• Dutch: radioactief (nl)
• Esperanto: radioaktiva
• Faroese: geislavirkin
• Finnish: radioaktiivinen (fi)
• French: radioactif (fr)
• Galician: radioactivo
• German: radioaktiv (de)
• Greek: ραδιοενεργό n (radioenergó)
• Hebrew: רדיואקטיבי (he) m (radioaktivi)
• Hindi: रेडीओऐक्टिव (reḍīoaikṭiv)
• Hungarian: radioaktív (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: geislavirkur
• Ido: radioaktiva (io)
• Italian: radioattivo (it)
• Japanese: 放射性 (ja) (ほうしゃせい, hōshasei)
• Kazakh: радиоактивті (radioaktivtı), радиоактивтік (radioaktivtık)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: radioaktywny (pl)
• Portuguese: radioactivo (pt) (Portugal), radioativo (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: radioactiv (ro) m, radioactivă f
• Russian: радиоакти́вный (ru) (radioaktívnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: rèidio-beò
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: радиоактивни

  Roman: radioaktivni

• Slovak: rádioaktívny (sk)
• Slovene: radioaktíven m
• Spanish: radiactivo (es)
• Swedish: radioaktiv (sv)
• Thai: กัมมันตรังสี (th)
• Turkish: radyoaktif (tr)
• Ukrainian: радіоакти́вний (radioaktývnyj)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can

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French

Adjective

radioactive

1. feminine singular of radioactif