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drastically | null |

As an adverb drastically

is to a drastic degree.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

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.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----