Drastically

Definition: Drastically

Drastically

Adverb

1. In a drastic manner.

Date "drastically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Crosswords: Drastically

English words defined with "drastically": cut ♦ saltation, shortened, slash, swing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "drastically": chugging ♦ mini-bike, Montreal Protocol ♦ smallest meaningful unit, steam chugging. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Drastically

Domain	Title
Books	Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands (reference) The Best and Biggest Tax-Saving Moves for 1992: 118 Personal, Investment & Business Strategies That Can Drastically Slash Your Tax Bill (reference) The foreign economic invasion of the United States & the drastically changed character of the international economic structure (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Third But Still Drastically Important (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Drastically

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Spores released from the fan-shaped basidiocarp of this inch-wide Crinipellis perniciosa mushroom can infect cacao trees and drastically reduce yields of the beans from which cocoa and chocolate products are made. Photo Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Drastically

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Some patients die in childhood while others who appear to be less drastically affected live into adulthood. (references)
		Fetal growth and development depend on proper nourishment and will be placed at risk by drastically reducing calories. (references)
		It is best to stop smoking entirely and permanently, or at the very least, to cut back drastically on the number of cigarettes you smoke. (references)
Business		The commoditization of hardware has pushed down margins drastically. (references)
		These circumstances have drastically altered the government's priorities. (references)
		After the financial crisis broke out in 1997, the defense budget was drastically reduced. (references)
Economic History	Liberia	The standard of living, which had been rising in the 1970s, declined drastically. (references)
	Afghanistan	Pakistan's closing its Afghan border in September 2001 presumably drastically curtailed this traffic. (references)
	Qatar	With the Great Depression and the introduction of Japan's cultured-pearl industry, pearling in Qatar declined drastically. (references)
Political Economy	EL SALVADOR	Key to this trend is the multi-year program, concluded in July 1999, to drastically lower tariffs. (references)
	ARGENTINA	The government abolished the import licensing system in 1989 and drastically cut the average import tariff. (references)
	INDIA	India's average import tariff fell drastically during the last decade but has been static for several years and is currently 28.3 percent. (references)
Trade	Nigeria	From August 1995 to date, the number of finance houses, commercial banks, mortgage and community banks has drastically declined due to "distress" in the financial sector. (references)
	India	Documentation requirements of banks for arranging such cover have also been drastically reduced and replaced with business projections and past performance criteria to gauge the level of exposure that is prudent. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Drastically

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Larry Elder	Well, it's a book that says the founding fathers were people who believed that Americans should be trusted with their own money and their own freedom, and that we have drastically drifted away from that.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Drastically

"Drastically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drastically" is used about 418 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	418	13,577

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Drastically

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "drastically": drastically-altered, drastically-increased, drastically-reduced.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drastically

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dangerously drastically emergency responders underfunded unprepared	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drastically

Language		Translations for "drastically"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		猛烈地 (Violently). (various references)

German		drastische, drastisch (drastic, effective, effectual, efficacious, savage, savagely, sweeping). (various references)

Greek		δραστικά. (various references)

Hungarian		drasztikusan. (various references)

Korean		격� �하게 (strenuously). (various references)

Pig Latin		asticallydray

Romanian		drastic (drastic). (various references)

Russian		резко (abruptly, acridly, acutely, hardly, harshly, roundly, shortly, stridently). (various references)

Spanish		drásticamente. (various references)

Swedish		drastiskt. (various references)

Turkish		zorlayıcı olarak (compulsively), sert bir biçimde (severely, sternly, strictly), şiddetle (amain, faithfully, forcibly, heavily, heavy, hot, keenly, lustily, roundly, severely, sharp, sore, sorely, strenuously, strong, strongly, violently). (various references)

Ukrainian		рішуче (decidedly, decisively, firmly, fixedly, flatly, forthright, manfully, point blank, pronouncedly, strongly), радикально (radically). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Drastically

Misspellings
	"Drastically" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drastical, drasticalie. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Drastically"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "drastically" (pronounced dra"stiklē)
7	-a" s t i k l ē	enthusiastically, fantastically, sarcastically.
6	-s t i k l ē	acoustically, artistically, characteristically, domestically, euphemistically, linguistically, logistically, realistically, stylistically, uncharacteristically, unrealistically.
5	-t i k l ē	aesthetically, alphabetically, analytically, apologetically, authentically, automatically, cosmetically, democratically, diplomatically, dogmatically, dramatically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, erratically, genetically, geopolitically, hypothetically, idiotically, optically, phonetically, poetically, synthetically, systematically, thematically, undiplomatically, vertically.
4	-i k l ē	academically, aerobically, aerodynamically, algebraically, angelically, astronomically, basically, biologically, categorically, chronologically, classically, demographically, ecologically, economically, ethnically, forensically, generically, geometrically, graphically, heroically, hysterically, ideologically, ironically, logically, lyrically, mechanically, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, numerically, organically, pathologically, physiologically, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, radically, rhetorically, rhythmically, specifically, sporadically, stoically, strategically, symmetrically, systemically, terrifically, theologically, tragically, volcanically.
3	-k l ē	alchemically, anatomically, athletically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, chemically, darkly, frankly, grotesquely, likely, medically, meekly, newsweekly, obliquely, paradoxically, practically, prickly, quickly, sickly, sleekly, slickly, sparkly, starkly, thickly, typically, uniquely, unlikely, weakly, weekly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Drastically

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-l-r-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: caryatids, radically, rascality.
	-3 letters: alacrity, astrally, caryatid, diastral, distally, racially, radially, radicals, rallyist, rascally, salacity, triclads.
	-4 letters: acarids, acridly, ascarid, astylar, cardias, caritas, citrals, cladist, clarity, crystal, dactyli, dactyls, daystar, drastic, lactary, lairdly, lariats, latrias, lyrical, radials, radical, saltily, satyric, satyrid, scarily, staidly, tardily, tidally, triclad, trysail.
	-5 letters: acarid, acidly, alcids, aliyas, allays, altars.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-l-r-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: crystalloidal, straitlacedly.
	+4 letters: diastrophically, hydrostatically.
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