Radical, extreme

Usage examples of drastic.

Honus Hasta revolted and founded the city of Castrum Mare in the 953rd year of Rome, Castra Sanguinarius was overrun with criminals, so that no man dared go abroad at night without an armed body-guard, nor was any one safe within his own home, and Honus Hasta, who became the first Emperor of the East, swore that there should be no criminals in Castrum Mare and he made laws so drastic that no thief or murderer lived to propagate his kind.

If the dimout was bad in the city proper, it was much more drastic here, close to the shore.

Fortunately, Sperren, Colin Dovekey, and the general had been able to bring him around to consider less drastic measures.

Millie Limeburner of their mid-street kiss, it seemed she needed to take drastic measures.

However, through drastic pruning, Spur had managed to bring three Macouns and one Sunset apple, and a Northstar cherry back into production again.

With Chalmody and Mayberry representing the two extremes - one conservative, the other drastic - it was only plausible that the rest might insist upon a representative being with them.

Depletion of the blood by drastic and poisonous medicines, such as antimony and mercurials, hemorrhages and blood-letting, syphilis, excessive mental or physical labor, as well as a too early use and abuse of the sexual organs, all tend to waste the blood, reduce the tone of the system, and develop scrofula.

On land, the paleobotanic data suggest quite drastic changes at least in the more southern and central part of the Western Interior of North America.

Before the curtain was opened, William Dexter, the genius behind this whole deal, a little bald man with a hearing aid in each ear and the affable, simple face of someone whom kids call by his first name, came out and said a few words about the need for drastic solutions to the problems of war and pollution, for a redefinition of our goals and values.

The reforms of Sixtus are important rather for their comprehensive than for their drastic quality.

The argument was then taken up by the Emperor Ferdinand who sent in an imposing demand for reforms, including the authorization of the marriage of priests, communion in both kinds, the use of the vulgar tongue in divine service, and drastic rules for the improvement of the convents and of the papal courts.

A profusion of shiny resina ornaments rested on the chairs, a vision that caused a drastic rise in my body temperature.

A drastic grain shortage meant political futures at stake, and a growling Treasury, and aediles scrambling to find alternative sources of grain.

Feynman expressed this view more than three decades ago, it applies equally well today What he meant is that although the special and general theories of relativity require a drastic revision of previous ways of seeing the world, when one fully accepts the basic principles underlying them, the new and unfamiliar implications for space and time follow directly from careful logical reasoning.

Dokken knew how often his presence was truly required, and how many brushfires would burn themselves out without drastic intervention.