DRASTICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drastically mean? 

• DRASTICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb DRASTICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a drastic manner

  Familiarity information: DRASTICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRASTICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a drastic manner

Pertainym:

drastic (forceful and extreme and rigorous)

 Context examples 

This condition, called gestational diabetes, drastically raises a woman’s risk for type 2 diabetes later in life.

(Breastfeeding may help prevent type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes, NIH)

Shock waves are narrow regions of air where pressure, temperature, and density characteristics are drastically different than surrounding areas.

(Seeing Shock Waves, EARTH OBSERVATORY)

Measles is one of several diseases that drastically reduced the indigenous population of Pacific island nations and the Americas after first contact with Europeans.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Understanding whether the rate of sea level rise is accelerating or remaining constant is important because it drastically changes what sea levels might look like in 20, 50 or 100 years.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

Bennu's surface temperatures vary drastically over its 4.3-hour rotation period.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

More recently, the combined effects of commercial krill fishing, climate change, and the recovery of seal and whale populations may have drastically decreased the abundance of krill.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

Employing this knowledge management system will unify these research communities and will reduce drastically the time and effort needed to create and use existing or new information, making research discoveries possible at a scientist's desk, in addition to the lab.

(Cancer Informatics Infrastructure, NCI Thesaurus)

In a new study of African buffalo, University of Georgia (UGA) ecologist Vanessa Ezenwa has found that de-worming drastically improves an animal's chances of surviving bovine tuberculosis—but with the consequence of increasing the spread of TB in the population.

(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)

While researchers are developing new technologies and energy sources that will drastically reduce the volume of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere in the first place, they are also on the hunt for new ways to remove more pollutants from the atmosphere.

(Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution, University of Cambridge)

He was surprised, he says, to find that plastic is apparently showing up in all of us, and he expects the amount collecting in our bodies to keep increasing, unless the world drastically changes its use of plastic.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)