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adjective. Rigorous in the imposition of discipline.

adjective. Conforming completely to established rule, principle, or condition.

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adjective. Requiring close observance or demanding in expectations: synonym: severe.

adjective. Carefully maintained or observed.

adjective. Not loose or vague; exact or precise.

adjective. Stiff, narrow, and upright.

Drawn tight; tight; close: as, a strict ligature.

Tense; stiff: as, a strict or lax fiber.

Narrow; restricted; confined; strait.

Close; intimate.

Absolute; unbroken: as, strict silence.

Exact; accurate; careful; rigorously nice: as, words taken in their strictest sense; a strict command.

Exacting; rigorous; severe; rigid: as, strict in keeping the Sabbath; a strict disciplinarian.

Restricted; taken strictly, narrowly, or exclusively: as, a strict generic or specific diagnosis.

In zoology, constricted; narrow or close; straitened; not loose or diffuse: as, the strict stem of some corals.

In botany, close or narrow and upright: opposed to lax: said of a stem or an inflorescence.

In music, regular; exactly according to rule; without liberties: as, a strict canon or fugue.

Synonyms Close, scrupulous, critical.

Severe, Rigorous, etc. See austere.

adjective. Strained; drawn close; tight.

adjective. Tense; not relaxed.

adjective. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.

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

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

adjective. Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

adjective. See Observance.

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adjective. Strained; drawn close; tight.

adjective. Tense; not relaxed.

adjective. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.

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

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

adjective. Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

adjective. Severe in discipline.

adjective. severe and unremitting in making demands

adjective. characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

adjective. incapable of compromise or flexibility

adjective. (of rules) stringently enforced

adjective. rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

"The only strict antithesis to Prose is Metre; nor is this, in truth, a _strict_ antithesis, because lines and passages of metre so naturally occur in writing prose, that it would be scarcely possible to avoid them, even were it desirable.]"

lax  lenient  permissive  

a strict hand  accurate  restricted  stretched  strict constructionist  

Spartan  austere  blue  corrective  demanding  

strain  stricture  stringent  

addict  afflict  clicked  conflict  constrict  

absolute  exact  proper  rigid  rigorous  

Sabbatarian  Spartan  Spartanic  absolute  absolutist