Definition of Drastic

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Drastic
	Drastic Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. A violent purgative. See Cathartic. Related Definitions: Acting, And, As, Bland, Cathartic, Drastic, Efficacious, Opposed, Powerful, Purgative, Rapidly, See, To, Violent, Violently

Drastic Quotations

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
Barbara Boxer

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.
John Money

When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.
Joan Van Ark

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
Ernst Mayr

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
Nigel Dennis

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
Jim Saxton

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
Ernst Mayr

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.
Corey Haim

Drastic Translations

drastic in Dutch is sterk werkend, drastisch
drastic in German is drastisch
drastic in Hungarian is drasztikus
drastic in Swedish is drastisk

Quotes