strict

Adjective Satellite

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
  • "a strict vegetarian"
• (of rules) stringently enforced
• incapable of compromise or flexibility
• severe and unremitting in making demands
  • "strict standards"

Adjective

• Kept within narrow limits; precise; stern.
• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

Adj

• Strained; drawn close; tight.
• Tense; not relaxed.
• Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
• Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
• Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
• Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
• Severe in discipline.
• Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.

Examples

• Following strict Scrabble rules, he challenged a questionable word and won.
• It was a very strict lesson.
• Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished.
• strict embrace
• strict fiber
• strict ligature
• they are very strict in observing the Sabbath
• to keep strict watch
• to pay strict attention
• to understand words in a strict sense

Synonyms

exacting, hard-and-fast, nonindulgent, rigid, rigorous, stern, accurate, brutal, callous, careful, cold, cold-eyed, comprehensive, conscientious, correct, dead on, dour, exhaustive, fastidious, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, groundly, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, icy, in-depth, insensitive, intensive, iron-hearted, letter-perfect, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, nonslack, painstaking, particular, polished, precise, proper, punctilious, puritanical, rockhearted, root and branch, scrupulous, scrutinous, sedulous, severe, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strained, stretched, strict, stringent, taut, tense, tensioned, thorough, tight, tough, unmoved, unsympathetic

Antonyms

indulgent, lax, lenient, permissive

Related Words

strain, stricture, stringent, STRICTLY