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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

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

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

I did not claim that every genetic change in a founder population is a genetic revolution. Evidently it requires a special constellation for the occurrence of a more drastic genetic reorganization.
Ernst Mayr

Drastic Translations

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


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