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

When cloud capacity, power and cooling were found to be the crucial scarce resources, hyperscaler stocks worked and the AI-adjacent industrials were drastically revalued. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026

Republican Scott Walker won that year, and over the next eight years enacted a wide array of Republican priorities that included drastically scaling back union rights, slashing taxes and requiring voters to show identification at the polls. — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

While fundamentally still true, the threats organizations are facing have changed drastically over the past two decades. — Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

All this is at stake when fundamental science budgets are being drastically cut. — Mattanjah De Vries, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for drastically

• elastically
• fantastically
• sarcastically
• enthusiastically
• plastically