Drastic

What do we mean by drastic?

Extreme in effect; severe or radical. adjective

Acting rapidly or violently. adjective

Effective; efficacious; powerful; acting with force or violence; vigorous: as, a drastic cathartic. Compare cathartic, adjective

A medicine which speedily and effectually purges. noun

Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland. adjective

Extreme, severe. adjective

Acting rapidly or violently. adjective

Extremely severe or extensive. adjective

Forceful and extreme and rigorous adjective

A powerful, fast-acting purgative medicine.

Words that are spelled similarly to drastic:
drastic.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word drastic:
measures, reduction, cuts, changes, decrease, decline, overhaul, change, restructuring, fantastic, consequences, shift, drop, steps, increase, departure, improvement, transformation, budget, action, measure, differences, effects, step, increases, reform, improvements, cutting, actions, effect.

Words that rhyme with drastic:
enthusiastic, bombastic, fantastic, sarcastic, stochastic, plastic, elastic, mastic, scholastic, iconoclastic, spastic, monastic, ecclesiastic, onomastic, inelastic, gymnastic, blastic, thermoplastic, nastic, clastic, dynastic, unenthusiastic, desmoplastic, anaplastic, interscholastic, plastique, lymphoblastic, gum elastic, trip the light fantastic, amino plastic, fluorocarbon plastic, phenolic plastic, das stuck, fantastik, glass stick, glass stuck, grass stuck, plas tic.

Adjectives that are often used to describe drastic:
agricultural.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective drastic:
changes, change, measures, action, reduction, step, steps, decline, measure, revision, cuts, increase, reductions, reforms, treatment, reform, effect, effects, consequences, methods, decrease, means, remedy, fall, drop, shift, alterations, remedies, reorganization, cut, alteration, curtailment, solution, purgatives, actions, legislation, transformation, modification, method, move, punishment, loss, simplification, improvement, restrictions, increases, departure, differences, revisions, laws, difference, surgery, shifts, modifications, overhaul, economies, decision, procedure, restriction, restructuring, impact, course, solutions, turn, penalties, reversal, fashion, act, limitation, declines, rise, intervention, cutbacks, proposals, adjustments, improvements, limitations, pruning, procedures, fluctuations, shortage, cathartics, purge, policies, operation, deterioration.

Consonant match to drastic:
draw stick, dress stuck, drew stick, dry stalk, dry stock.

Words that sound like drastic:
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