drastically

drastic | American Dictionary

drastic
adjective
us/ˈdræs·tɪk/
(of a change) severe and sudden; extreme:
In the desert there’s a drastic change in temperature from day to night.

drastically

adverbus/ˈdræs·tɪk·li/
Our lives changed drastically when dad died and we had to move.

drastic | Business English

drastic
adjective
uk /ˈdræstɪk/us
severe and sudden, or having very noticeable effects:
He is not under pressure from his own electorate to do anything drastic.
a drastic decline/drop/reduction in sth
take drastic action/measures/stepsThe company is taking drastic action to reduce its debt by $14.3 billion.
drastic changes/cuts in sth

drastically

adverb
The manufacturer will also report drastically reduced turnover of £3.5m in the year to this month.

Examples of drastic

drastic
We are not targeting accurate predictions in the face of drastic unseen-before changes in workload patterns.
After the ultimatum, it decides more drastic action is needed.
To our knowledge, this was the first analysis of the drastic mesoscopic consequences of intracellular zero-order degradation.
The significance of this is not that drastic.
However, as with the elastic limit, this limit can be justified only with some rather drastic assumptions.
This gave him a suitably grand purpose, but made nonsense of the original scenario, so that more drastic alterations were now needed.
These drastic measures confirmed the worst fears about plague regulations among the slum-dwellers of the area.
Modeling the geometry of these irregularities would normally require a drastic increase in mesh resolution and corresponding computation time.
It was a drastic change from the sheer indifference that was prevalent until 2000.
This difference has a drastic effect in the computational behavior of expansion which is the lack of preservation of expansion by -reduction.
The drastic drop in total area cultivated with cocoyam indicates that many farmers have decided to grow other crops.
The reluctance of some rabbis matched the zeal of others for drastic punishments.
Exploitation of more advanced approximation, solution, and integration techniques surely will lead to drastic improvements.
As explained above, the guerrillas had to enforce ever more drastic measures in attempting to keep civilians under their control and prevent them from fleeing.
What has, however, seen drastic changes are the brides and the marriage gifts.
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