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DRASTIC/DRAMATIC |
“Drastic” means “severe” and generally has negative or frightening associations. Drastic measures are
not just extreme, they are likely to have harmful side-effects. Don’t
use this word or “drastically” in a positive or neutral sense. A drastic
rise in temperature should be seen as downright dangerous, not just
surprisingly large. Often when people
use phrases like “drastic improvement,” they mean “dramatic”
instead.
