Crossword-Solution: DRASTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drastic | a. | Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. |
| Drastic | n. | A violent purgative. See Cathartic. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “DRASTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| radical and extreme | 1 answer |
| Severe, as measures | 1 answer |
| Like extreme measures | 1 answer |
| Like emergency measures | 1 answer |
| For emergencies only | 1 answer |
| Extremely severe | 1 answer |
| Extreme; rigorous | 1 answer |
| Extreme, as measures | 1 answer |
| Acting with violence. | 1 answer |
| ACTING strongly, vigorous, violent, etc. | 2 answers |
| Like some measures | 6 answers |
| BIRD WITH A SEVERE DRINKI | 10 answers |
| Far-reaching | 10 answers |
| inordinate | 24 answers |
| Immoderate | 35 answers |
| Draconian | 51 answers |
| Dynamic ___ | 55 answers |
| Baddie | 55 answers |
| relentless | 57 answers |
| Rigorous | 60 answers |
| Forceful | 66 answers |
| Despicable | 66 answers |
| Excessive | 68 answers |
| Desperate | 72 answers |
| Severe | 76 answers |
| expedient | 76 answers |
| Dire | 76 answers |
| Violent | 82 answers |
| Radical | 83 answers |
| Vigorous | 85 answers |
| Extreme | 94 answers |
| Bad | 98 answers |
| BLACK ___ | 123 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEAECZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DRASTIC (5)
Although President Kennedy had intended to use his executive authority as his main weapon in securing civil rights, the mounting pressure on both sides of the conflict forced him to take more drastic action, and he submitted a Civil Rights Bill to Congress.
Yes, for over two hundred years no man crossed 30° to 175° and lived to tell his story—not until chance drew me across and back again, and public opinion, revolting at last against the drastic regulations of our long-dead forbears, demanded that my story be given to the world, and that the narrow interdict which commanded peace, prosperity, and happiness to halt at 30° and 175° be removed forever.
You can see what a blessing it would have been to New Jersey if something drastic had happened to that feeble-minded barmaid in her infancy.
Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.
Helena rate fifty cents, and please notice the very drastic cut from Red Bluff, north, along the Oregon route, to the Oregon State Line.” “Where not a carload of wheat is shipped in a year,” commented Gethings of the San Pablo.
Quotes with DRASTIC (3)
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Hea…
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
It took me years to realize that I could do all kinds of drastic acts like quitting jobs, relationships, towns (or all of the above), but what showed up at the next job, relationship, & town was still ME.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).