drastic

Word family

dras·tic /ˈdræstɪk/ adjectiveadj

MORE/EXTRAextreme and sudden 激烈的，嚴厲的；突然的

drastic action/measures

NATO threatened drastic action if its terms were not met.

如果條件得不到滿足，北約威脅將要采取嚴厲的行動。

drastic cuts in government spending

政府開支的急劇削減

Drastic changes are needed if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.

要想避免環境災難就需要重大的變革。

—drastically /-kli/ adverbadv

The size of the army was drastically cut.

軍隊的規模被大幅度裁減。

Examples from the Corpus

drastic• The effect on the final rent review would be even more drastic.• The vaccine brought a drastic drop-80 percent-in paralytic polio cases by 1957.• However, other less drastic methods of resolving disagreements are available.• Other more drastic proposals were ventilated but never put into practice.• Obviously, such a drastic revision created a significant amount of tension at the plant.• Start your kitchen reorganization with a drastic sort-out and throw-out.

drastic cuts• The council would spend £10m more than Governments limits, putting off the need for drastic cuts.• The liberal democrats and labour say their budget was the only way to prevent drastic cuts.• The drastic cuts come a week after Aldershot were wound up and rekindle fears for several Fourth Division clubs facing closure.• California in 1990 enacted a plan requiring drastic cuts in air pollution from automobiles.• C., making drastic cuts in Medicare reimbursement unlikely for now.• He is in favor of drastic cuts in social spending in order to balance the budget.• In practice it has not proved easy to achieve the drastic cuts in spending that are wanted.• Jude Medical and Medtronic gained as federal budget talks stalled, making drastic cuts in the Medicare health insurance program less likely.

Origin drastic

(1600-1700) Greek drastikos, from dran “to do”

Syllable

Corpus

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6859 COCA: 8118

drastic adj.
⇨ serious 1

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6859 COCA: 8118

drastic