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Strict

//stɹɪkt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Strained; drawn close; tight.

    "strict embrace"

  2. 2
    Tense; not relaxed.

    "strict fiber"

  3. 3
    Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.

    "to keep strict watch"

  4. 4
    Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.

    "they are very strict in observing the Sabbath"

  5. 5
    Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.

    "to understand words in a strict sense"

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  1. 6
    Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
  2. 7
    Severe in discipline.

    "Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished."

  3. 8
    Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
Adjective
  1. 1
    severe and unremitting in making demands wordnet
  2. 2
    rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard wordnet
  3. 3
    characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint wordnet
  4. 4
    incapable of compromise or flexibility wordnet
  5. 5
    (of rules) stringently enforced wordnet

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.

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