Strikingly vs Drastically - What's the difference?
strikingly | drastically |
(manner) In a striking way.
(degree) To a remarkable degree or extent.
*
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
(evaluative) Remarkably, surprisingly.
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 strikingly and drastically
is that strikingly is in a striking way while drastically is to a drastic degree.strikingly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He entered strikingly , taking over the stage.
- He was strikingly deficient in good sense.
- Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different.
- Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
- Strikingly , he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.
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.
