radness

State of being cool

Radness is the quality of being rad—cool, impressive, or excellent.

The word carries the enthusiastic energy of 1980s surfer and skater slang: The sheer radness of that trick blew everyone away.

Like its root word, radness sounds dated or deliberately retro in contemporary use.

coolness

gnarly

Twisted and rough

  • sickUnwell or impressively cool
  • dopeSlang triple-threat term
  • freshNewly made, not stale

killer · wicked · tight · fly · boss · lit · fire · stellar · legit · primo

thrill

adrenaline

Emergency response hormone

amped · psyched · fired-up · hyped · jazzed · exhilaration · euphoria · buzz · high · charge

era

80s

Decade before the nineties

  • 90sFinal twentieth-century decade
  • retroEvoking recent past
  • throwbackReturn to ancestral type

vintage · nostalgia · arcade · neon · synth · VHS · Walkman · BMX · skateboard · surfer

skate-surf

shred

Torn fragment

air · vert · halfpipe · rail · grind · ollie · kickflip · barrel · tube · swell

Opposites
coolness/impressiveness

radnesslameness

Impaired ability to walk

uncoolness · dorkiness · nerdiness · wackness · squareness

excitement/energy

radnessboringness

Lack of interest

dullness · blandness · dreariness · staleness · vapidness

Family

radical, rad, radically, radicalism, raddest, rads

Familiarity
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Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G