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

Its cruise speed will exceed 310 mph (500 km/h), nearly twice that of the Black Hawk, drastically reducing time-to-objective for troop insertion, extraction, and resupply missions. —Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025

If that’s making a staff change, making multiple personnel changes or drastically overhauling the scheme, something will have to happen to not continue wasting one of the best offenses in the NFL. —Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Dec. 2025

Although the Dolphins run defense has drastically improved, Warren could still gash teams on the ground as evinced by his 16-carry, 127-yard performance in Week 7. —Miami Herald, 14 Dec. 2025

As has often been he case recently, Boise State fell drastically short. —Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 14 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for drastically

• elastically
• fantastically
• sarcastically
• enthusiastically
• plastically