something that is cool or awesome some times used as radical
wow that's rad OR that's totally radical (rad)
friend 1: emma used the word rad today and i don’t know what it means?
friend 2: she is the definition of rad
Adjective used by aging hipsters in lieu of more commonplace descriptors such as "cool" or "awesome" when they want to be perceived as relevant, hip, or edgy.
Playing a show at your house venue would be really rad. Please book my band.
When something is so radical you can't even bring yourself to say the whole word.
Girl: Wow! Did you see what Peter just did!?
Guy: Hell yeah! That ollie was rad!!!
A word used by parents instead of cool because they think saying rad is cool.
Dad- "THAt waS SoosSSooo RaD!!! "
Kid- "Shut up dad"