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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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