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Definition of Drastic
1. Adjective. Forceful and extreme and rigorous. "Drastic measures"
Definition of Drastic
1. a. Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
Definition of Drastic
1. Adjective. Extreme, severe. ¹
2. Adjective. Acting rapidly or violently. ¹
3. Adjective. Extremely severe or extensive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drastic
1. extremely severe [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drastic
Literary usage of Drastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"These were drastic proposals to be made to a city which had just dismissed its
Bishop, attained political freedom, and proclaimed a Reformation of religion ..."
2. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"It is used as a drastic purgative for children with calomel or potassium sulphate,
when an active cathartic is indicated. ..."
3. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1914)
"A drastic PROHIBITION LAW. The West Virginia prohibition law, which goes into
effect July 1, 1914, is the most drastic that has been written in the statutes ..."
4. The Heart of the Railroad Problem: The History of Railway Discrimination in by Frank Parsons (1906)
"A drastic Cure for Rebating. For the cure of discrimination, ... This would indeed
be a drastic remedy, and very effective for the prevention of the ..."
5. John Chinaman at Home: Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China by Edward John Hardy (1906)
"... LIFE Each village self-sufficing — drastic measures — Overcrowding — Thrifty
... Indeed, they are only too drastic in their desire that Caesar's wife ..."
6. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1914)
"A drastic PROHIBITION LAW. The West Virginia prohibition law, which goes into
effect July 1, 1914, is the most drastic that has been written in the statutes ..."
7. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Slightly bitter and astringent ; the fruit often mucilaginous, commonly rather
nauseous or drastic. * Calyx and dl.sk free from the ovary, t. ..."
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