drastically
Americanadverb
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so as to have a thorough or far-reaching effect; profoundly or radically.
Our everyday lives have been drastically altered by the huge number of innovations in medicine, transportation, communications, and more.
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extremely.
This school should be merged with others in the same locality, as the number of students studying here is drastically low.
Etymology
Origin of drastically
Example Sentences
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The Lobito corridor is to drastically reduce the time it takes to transport minerals between the DRC or Zambia to the coast, to 40-50 hours compared to 45 days by road currently.
From Barron's
Indoor tanning drastically increases melanoma risk, and scientists have now mapped the sweeping DNA damage tanning beds inflict across nearly the entire skin surface -- damage far beyond what sunlight causes.
From Science Daily
Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointed on Wednesday to a job-market risk that economists have been worried about for months: Official statistics could be drastically overstating recent hiring.
At the same time, the collapse of the Soviet Union drastically lowered the price of titanium, an extraordinarily strong metal that the Soviets had been hoarding to build nuclear submarines.
These would be much more expensive and drastically slow approvals.
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