Usually means: Emits radiation through nuclear decay.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. radioactive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. radioactive: Merriam-Webster
  3. radioactive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. radioactive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. radioactive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. radioactive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Radioactive, radioactive: Wordnik
  8. radioactive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. radioactive: Wiktionary
  10. radioactive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. radioactive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. radioactive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. radioactive: Dictionary.com
  14. radioactive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. radioactive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Radioactive (Gene Simmons song), Radioactive (Imagine Dragons song), Radioactive (Kings of Leon song), Radioactive (Rita Ora song), Radioactive (The Firm song), Radioactive (Yelawolf album), Radioactive (disambiguation), Radioactive (film), Radioactive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. radioactive: Rhymezone
  18. radioactive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. radioactive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. radioactive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. radioactive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. radioactive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. radioactive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. radioactive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Radioactive: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. radioactive: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  7. radioactive: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. radioactive: Medical dictionary
  9. Radioactive: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Radioactive: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Radioactive: Physic and Astronomy Glossary
  4. radioactive: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. radioactive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Radioactive: Gems and Precious Stones

(Note: See radioactively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Exhibiting radioactivity.
adjective:  (figurative, rare) Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.
noun:  Any radioactive substance.

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