Antonyms for drastically
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : dras-tik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdræs tɪk |
Definition of drastically
Origin :- 1690s, originally medical, "forceful, vigorous, especially in effect on bowels," from Greek drastikos "effective, efficacious; active, violent," from drasteon "(thing) to be done," from dran "to do, act, perform." Sense of "extreme, severe" is first recorded 1808. Related: Drastically.
- As in terribly : adv very
- As in extremely : adv greatly, intensely
- Cicely interfered with death as drastically as she interfered with everything else.
- Extract from : « The Second Fiddle » by Phyllis Bottome
- Mechanization most drastically altered life on the family farm.
- Extract from : « Frying Pan Farm » by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
- Why was I, so drastically different from them, chosen as a guard?
- Extract from : « Man of Many Minds » by E. Everett Evans
- He wanted to terrify Aileen if he could—to reform her drastically.
- Extract from : « The Financier » by Theodore Dreiser
- And physically, the human race altered just as drastically in an equally short span of time.
- Extract from : « This Crowded Earth » by Robert Bloch
- During the last few weeks he had been forced to a self-examination that had been drastically thorough.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of the East » by E. M. Hull
- Probability gets so drastically changed that the violent thing you're trying to do becomes something that can't happen.
- Extract from : « The Ambulance Made Two Trips » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- There were dangerous and explosive words, like Peace, War, and Freedom which the censor dealt with drastically.
- Extract from : « What Not » by Rose Macaulay
- That is the reason why a strict censorship in time of war is not only useful, but essentially and drastically necessary.
- Extract from : « Hilaire Belloc » by C. Creighton Mandell
- And at moments when the scale of mankind reaches a threshold, it is drastically redefined-as in our times, for instance.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
Synonyms for drastically
- acutely
- almighty
- awfully
- badly
- decidedly
- desperately
- discouragingly
- disturbingly
- drastically
- dreadfully
- exceedingly
- exceptionally
- excessively
- exorbitantly
- extraordinarily
- extremely
- fearfully
- frightfully
- gravely
- greatly
- highly
- horribly
- hugely
- immensely
- immoderately
- inordinately
- intensely
- markedly
- mightily
- mortally
- much
- notably
- notoriously
- over
- overly
- overmuch
- parlous
- plenty
- powerful
- prohibitively
- quite
- radically
- rarely
- remarkably
- seriously
- severely
- staggeringly
- strikingly
- surpassingly
- terribly
- terrifically
- thoroughly
- to nth degree
- too
- too much
- totally
- ultra
- unbelievably
- uncommonly
- unduly
- unfortunately
- unhappily
- unusually
- utterly
- very
- violently
- vitally
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