Adverb

(en-adv)

In a strong or powerful manner.

Very much.

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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.