Front | drastic |
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Pron | ['dræstɪk] |
Back | 【DRASTIC】 Drastic changes are necessary to improve the government of the country. 为了改进该国的政府,激烈的改革是必须的。 【重点词汇】 drastic adj. 激烈的 同: extreme |
Vocab | drasticforceful and extreme and rigorous
Something that is drastic is violent, forceful, and extreme. If you are saving for a car and you only have $50, you need to make a drastic change to your money accumulation scheme. The word drastic comes from the Greek word for effective, but we use it to mean incredibly effective. If you want a drastic makeover, get rid of all your clothes, change your hair completely, and pick up a new way of speaking. Sometimes drastic action goes too far and so has bad consequences. A bankrupt company might make a drastic decision to fire the management without figuring out how to manage itself in the future. All forms of 'drastic' will appear on average once every 1369 pages. drastic drastically |
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