Strict

Adjective
(stricter and strictest are the grammatically correct forms for the comparative and superlative although outside UK 'more strict' and 'most strict' are more often used)


 * 1) Strained; drawn close; tight.
 * strict embrace
 * strict ligature
 * 1) Tense; not relaxed.
 * strict fiber
 * 1) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.
 * to keep strict watch
 * to pay strict attention
 * 1) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
 * very strict in observing the Sabbath
 * 1) Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
 * to understand words in a strict sense
 * 1) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
 * 2) Severe in discipline.

Antonyms

 * lenient
 * lax
 * permissive

Related terms

 * stricture
 * stringent
 * strain

Adverbs for Strict
unreasonably;  particularly;   singularily; needlessly; narrowly; dogmatically; narrow-mindedly; intolerantly; uncharitably; unnecessarily; foolishly; unwisely; cruelly; bitterly; moderately; severely; oddly; illogically; inconsistently; brutally; piously; conventionally; viciously; habitually; dreadfully; wisely; sensibly; moderately; uncommonly; austerely; uncompromisingly; terribly; hideously.

Thesaurus
Sabbatarian, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accurate, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aspersion, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, bossy, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, circumscription, close, cold-blooded, complete, compulsive, confining, conscientious, constant, constrictive, correct, cramp, creedbound, critical, defined, delicate, demanding, despotic, detailed, dictatorial, direct, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, domineering, dour, draconian, evangelical, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, feudal, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, forbidding, fundamentalist, fussy, grim, grinding, hard, hard-boiled, harsh, hidebound, high-handed, hyperorthodox, imperative, imperial, imperious, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inflexible, ironhanded, just, limitation, literalist, literalistic, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, mathematical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, monocratic, narrow, nice, obloquy, oppressive, overbearing, overconscientious, overruling, overscrupulous, particular, peremptory, perfectionistic, picky, pinpoint, pitiless, precise, precisianist, precisianistic, precisionistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, punctual, purist, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, refined, reflection, religious, religiously exact, repressive, right, rigid, rigorist, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, slam, slur, square, staunch, stern, stint, straitlaced, stricture, stringent, subtle, suppressive, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, tyrannical, tyrannous, uncompromising, undeviating, undistorted, unerring, unsparing, unsympathetic, veracious, veridical

Etymology
From strictus:, past participle of stringere:; see stringent, strain.

Translations

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 * German:
 * Japanese: 厳しい
 * Russian: строгий
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 * Japanese: 厳しい
 * Russian: строгий
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 * : streng


 * : severo
 * : 엄격한 (eomkyeokhan)
 * : severo

Adjective

 * 1) strict

Etymology
From strictus:, past participle of stringere:.