strict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: stricter
form: more strict
form: strictest
form: most strict
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (“to draw tight, bind, contract”). Doublet of strait and stretto. See stringent, strain. Related to strong.
Senses: examples: text: strict embrace
text: strict ligature
synonyms: word: taut
word: tensioned
word: nonslack
word: strained
word: stretched
word: strict
word: taut
word: tense
word: tensioned
word: tight
glosses: Strained; drawn close; tight.
examples: text: strict fiber
glosses: Tense; not relaxed.
examples: text: to keep strict watch
text: to pay strict attention
synonyms: word: correct
word: dead on
word: thorough
word: accurate
word: careful
word: comprehensive
word: conscientious
word: exhaustive
word: fastidious
word: groundly
word: in-depth
word: intensive
word: letter-perfect
word: mindful
word: minute
word: particular
word: polished
word: precise
word: painstaking
word: punctilious
word: rigorous
word: root and branch
word: scrupulous
word: scrutinous
word: sedulous
word: strict
word: thorough
word: tight
glosses: Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
examples: text: they are very strict in observing the Sabbath
text: No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
synonyms: word: nice
word: precise
word: puritanical
glosses: Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
examples: text: to understand words in a strict sense
synonyms: narrow
proper
glosses: Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
examples: text: Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished.
text: It was a very strict lesson.
synonyms: word: brutal
word: harsh
word: stringent
word: tough
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
antonyms: lenient
lax
permissive
glosses: Severe in discipline.
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
Derived terms: non-strict
rule of strict construction
strict conditional
strict construction
strict constructionism
strict constructionist
stricten
strict implication
strict inequality
strict liability
strictly
strictness
strict ordering
strict scrutiny
strict-sense stationary
strict vegetarian
Related terms: stricture
stringent
strain