extreme in a way that has a sudden, serious or violent effect on sth:
drastic measures / changes * The government is threatening to take drastic action. * a drastic shortage of food * a drastic reduction in their standard of living * Talk to me before you do anything drastic.
drastically adverb:
Output has been drastically reduced. * Things have started to go drastically wrong.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for drastic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is drastic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, drastic is tagged as adjective.
Does drastic appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — drastic appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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