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Radically vs Drastically - What's the difference?

radically | drastically |

As adverbs the difference between radically and drastically

is that radically is in a radical manner; fundamentally; very while drastically is to a drastic degree.

radically

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
    • two radically different political groups
  • * 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
    • The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
  • At the root.
    • "Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word.
  • * 1788 , Jonathan Edwards, in a report to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences:
    • This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same.

    Related terms

    * radical * root

    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.