Drastically vs Significantly - What's the difference?
drastically | significantly |
To a drastic degree.
In a drastic manner.
* 1920 , America , volume 22, page 255:
* 1928 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume 141, page 558:
* 1933 , The China Critic , volume 6, page 428:
As adverbs the difference between drastically and significantly
is that drastically is to a drastic degree while significantly is in a significant manner or to a significant extent.drastically
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- This recession has been drastically different.
- drastically reduced prices
- Lisa always wore shorts and a T-shirt, which clashed drastically with her brother's thick winter coat.
- 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.
- Seldom have democratic principles been so drastically enacted into law.
- A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts.