English Explanatory Dictionary

strict

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/stɹɪkt/ en-us-strict.ogg

Word forms

strict stricter strictest

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.

Synonyms

taut tensioned nonslack strained stretched strict tense tight correct dead on thorough accurate careful comprehensive solicitous conscientious exhaustive fastidious groundly in-depth intensive letter-perfect mindful minute particular polished precise painstaking punctilious rigorous root and branch scrupulous scrutinous sedulous nice puritanical narrow proper brutal harsh stringent tough callous cold cold-eyed cruel dour flint-hearted forbidding frosty grim hard hard-boiled hardened hardhearted heartless humorless icy iron-hearted insensate

Antonyms

lenient lax permissive

Related words

stricture stringent strain

Derived words

non-strict overstrict rule of strict construction semistrict strict conditional strict construction strict constructionism strict constructionist stricten strict implication strict inequality strictish strict liability strictly strictness strict ordering strict scrutiny strict-sense stationary strict vegetarian superstrict ultrastrict unstrict
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