Substantially vs Drastically - What's the difference?
substantially | drastically |
In a strong substantial manner; considerably.
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
To a great extent; in essence; essentially.
Without material qualifications.
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 substantially and drastically
is that substantially is in a strong substantial manner; considerably while drastically is to a drastic degree.substantially
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began.
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.