The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
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Stringent
//ˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt//
Synonyms for "stringent" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (37)
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derived
3 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- неоспорим adj (making strict requirements)
- строг adj (making strict requirements)
Dutch
2 entries- gestreng adj (making strict requirements)
- stringent adj (making strict requirements)
Finnish
2 entries- ankara adj (making strict requirements)
- tiukka adj (making strict requirements)
French
1 entries- strict adj (making strict requirements)
German
1 entries- stringent adj (making strict requirements)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- streng adj (making strict requirements)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- streng adj (making strict requirements)
Persian
2 entries- سخت adj (making strict requirements)
- قاطع adj (making strict requirements)
Portuguese
2 entries- estrito adj (making strict requirements)
- restritivo adj (making strict requirements)
Russian
2 entries- жёсткий adj (making strict requirements)
- стро́гий adj (making strict requirements)
Spanish
4 entries- estricto adj (making strict requirements)
- restrictivo adj (making strict requirements)
- rígido adj (making strict requirements)
- severo adj (making strict requirements)
Swedish
2 entries- stringent adj (making strict requirements)
- sträng adj (making strict requirements)
Ukrainian
2 entries- строгий adj (making strict requirements)
- суворий adj (making strict requirements)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Pale at the sight we fly; unswerving, these / glide on and seek Laocoon. First, entwined / in stringent folds, his two young sons they seize, / with cruel fangs their tortured limbs to grind.
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India announced one of the most stringent travel restrictions to date by suspending visas for all foreigners for at least one month.
Source: tatoeba (8609781)
Many European governments say they have little choice but to ease pandemic restrictions, fearing that if they maintain stringent rules, their citizens will only ignore them.
Source: tatoeba (9418665)
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