drastically

adverb

dras·​ti·​cal·​ly ˈdra-sti-k(ə-)lē 

: in a drastic manner : severely or seriously

The industry has changed drastically over the last 30 years.

This … car will allow you to drastically reduce the amount of time (and money) spent pumping gas …

—Jim Motavelli

Some of those plants … are native species present before humans drastically altered the land.

—Peter Del Tredici

Examples of drastically in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While her days are still full and busy, her schedule has shifted drastically. — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026

In December 2025, Sudakov and two of his graduate students drastically simplified the team’s coloring model, improving their new bounds even further. — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026

That will probably be welcome news for chip designers looking to support AI workloads, given how SRAM scaling has fallen off drastically in recent generations of chip technologies. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026

This narrow focus drastically reduces cognitive load, boosting software development velocity and enabling developers to iterate faster, test continuously and ship higher-quality code. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for drastically

• elastically
• fantastically
• sarcastically
• enthusiastically
• plastically