Badly vs Drastically - What's the difference?

badly | drastically |

As adverbs the difference between badly and drastically

is that badly is in a bad manner while drastically is to a drastic degree.

As an adjective badly

is (northern england) ill, unwell.

badly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(Northern England) Ill, unwell.

He's never badly'''''. (''He's never '''ill .)

Adverb

In a bad manner.

Very much; to a great degree.

I want it so badly .

Usage notes

* Badly is sometimes used after feel in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, bad. Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used.

Anagrams

* English suppletive adverbs

drastically

English

Adverb

(en adverb)

To a drastic degree.

This recession has been drastically different.

drastically reduced prices

In a drastic manner.

Lisa always wore shorts and a T-shirt, which clashed drastically with her brother's thick winter coat.

* 1920 , America , volume 22, page 255:

It explains why a Democratic Congress foisted Prohibition on the country and a Republican Congress drastically legislated to enforce it, when ordinarily the two parties are only too anxious for any political stick to beat each other with.

* 1928 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume 141, page 558:

Seldom have democratic principles been so drastically enacted into law.

* 1933 , The China Critic , volume 6, page 428:

A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts.