The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dramatically \Dra*mat"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.
Wiktionary
adv. In a dramatic manner.
WordNet
adv. in a very impressive manner; "your performance will improve dramatically"
in a dramatic manner; "he confessed dramatically" [ant: undramatically]
with respect to dramatic value; "the play was dramatically interesting, but the direction was bad"
Usage examples of "dramatically".
Crime on Bhat rose to alarming proportions as incidents of domestic violence multiplied dramatically.
Clovis also insisted on setting aside an hour after they pitched camp to work with Castile on her archery, which improved dramatically.
The fact that a patent as flimsy and as spurious as this one has to be brought all the way to this Court to be declared invalid dramatically illustrates how far our patent system frequently departs from the constitutional standards which are supposed to govern.
The transformative power of dreams is inherent, and this power can be nurtured, developed, and enhanced dramatically by turning conscious attentions to dreams and working with them, either alone, or in company with others.
The water expands into steam, and the pressure rises dramatically, finally breaching the reactor vessel, causing it to physically explode.
Under Byrnes s flamboyant guidance the detectives in the bureau became known as the Immortals and they dramatically reduced the level of crime in a city as freewheeling back then as the Wild West.
One mild overcast Saturday nearly a year after Frenesi had moved out, Zoyd and Prairie, returning from a midday stroll down the alley to the Gordita Pier and back, found inside their house who but Hector, posed dramatically in the front room next to the biggest block of pressed marijuana Zoyd had ever seen in his life, too big to have fit through any door yet towering there, mysteriously, a shaggy monolithic slab reaching almost to the ceiling.
The attempt is not successful, and in spite of its power and the beauty of its component parts, the picture as a whole is less satisfying as a composition, and for that reason less moving as a story, than is the companion piece, in which Goya arranges his figures in a series of sharply delimited balancing groups, dramatically contrasted with one another and the background.
But this time the odds seem to have changed dramatically in favor of her Arab neighbors.
More dramatically, an enormous, and suddenly horrified crowd on the plaine des Bro-teaux beside the Rhone near Lyon saw the soon-to-be-doomed Pilatre de Rozier, Montgolfier and six passengers, including the son of the Prince de Ligne, descend vertically amidst smoke and flames.
They payed it out hand over hand, so the balloon went up only slowly, in small jerks, and not very dramatically.
Without that phosphokinase, the risk of holes or cracks appearing at junctions in the arterial walls increases dramatically.
Yet I was fascinated by the experience of this former legal warrior who had dramatically transformed his life after meeting and studying under these marvellous sages from India.
But the Lunar Transport Authority, a semiautonomous corporation, was promising that costs would come down dramatically with the planned arrival next year of the second-generation SSTO.
With the end of the war, targets began shifting, the signals intelligence agencies dramatically downsized, and money became short.