Drastic and Excessive

Drastic

Drastic adjective - Forceful and extreme and rigorous.
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Excessive and drastic are semantically related. in heavy topic. In some cases you can use "Excessive" instead an adjective "Drastic", when it comes to topics like extreme.

Nearby Word: drastically

Excessive

Excessive adjective - Going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount.

Drastic and excessive are semantically related. You can use "Drastic" instead an adjective "Excessive".

Nearby Words: excess, excessively

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  • Literature / A Tale of Two Cities Laser-Guided Karma: As critical as Dickens is of the excessive violence of the Revolution, he argues that the French nobility fully brought this on themselves, and that any society built on this injustice will eventually face drastic consequences such as the events of the book.
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