strict

Speech parts

1. strict - Adjective

2. strict - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.

Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.

Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.

Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rigorous stern severe rigid exacting exact close hard accurate precise demanding stringent meticulous inflexible authoritarian
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Antonyms

clement slack free luxe kind easy
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Related terms

strain stringent stricture

Phrases with the word

Not strict strict disciplinarian exercise strict control strict minimum strict fast strict pacifism

Examples

Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us. John Chrysostom

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. Ambrose Bierce

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. Mark Twain

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. George Bernard Shaw

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. Michel de Montaigne

Close letter words and terms

Strickling strickly strickly dickly strict blue-eyed grass strict capitalism strict conditional