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Throughly vs Drastically - What's the difference?

throughly | drastically |

As adverbs the difference between throughly and drastically

is that throughly is thoroughly, completely while drastically is to a drastic degree.

throughly

English

Alternative forms

* thruly

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Thoroughly, completely.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.7:
    • The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
  • * c. 1610 , (William Shakespeare), , III.2:
    • The next advantage / Will we take throughly .
  • * :
    • Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.

    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.