'Strict' definitions:
Definition of 'strict'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian" [syn: rigorous, strict]
adjective
(of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules" [syn: hard-and-fast, strict]
adjective
Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint [syn: nonindulgent, strict] [ant: indulgent]
adjective
Incapable of compromise or flexibility [syn: rigid, strict]
adjective
Definition of 'Strict'
From: GCIDE
- Strict \Strict\, a. [Compar. Stricter; superl. Strictest.] [L. strictus, p. p. of stringere to draw or bind tight, to strain. See Strain, and cf. Strait, a.]
- 1. Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- It shall be still in strictest measure. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. "Through the strict senteries." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Bot.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe.
- Usage: Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts to a principle or code by which he is bound; severe is strict with an implication often, but not always, of harshness. Strict is opposed to lax; severe is opposed to gentle. [1913 Webster]
- And rules as strict his labored work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: "What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!" --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The Strict Observance, or {Friars of the Strict Observance}. (R. C. Ch.) See Observance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'strict'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- accurate,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- aspersion,
- astringent,
- attentive,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- bigoted,
- bossy,
- careful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- circumscription,
- close,
- cold-blooded,
- complete,
- compulsive,
- confining,
- conscientious,
- constant,
- constrictive,
- correct,
- cramp,
- creedbound,
- critical,
- defined,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- despotic,
- detailed,
- dictatorial,
- direct,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dogmatic,
- domineering,
- dour,
- draconian,
- evangelical,
- even,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- express,
- exquisite,
- faithful,
- fastidious,
- feudal,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- firm,
- forbidding,
- fundamentalist,
- fussy,
- grim,
- grinding,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- harsh,
- hidebound,
- high-handed,
- hyperorthodox,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- inerrable,
- inerrant,
- infallible,
- inflexible,
- ironhanded,
- just,
- limitation,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- masterful,
- mathematical,
- meticulous,
- micrometrically precise,
- microscopic,
- minute,
- monocratic,
- narrow,
- nice,
- obloquy,
- oppressive,
- overbearing,
- overconscientious,
- overruling,
- overscrupulous,
- particular,
- peremptory,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- pinpoint,
- pitiless,
- precise,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- refined,
- reflection,
- religious,
- religiously exact,
- repressive,
- right,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigorous,
- rugged,
- ruthless,
- Sabbatarian,
- scientific,
- scientifically exact,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- slam,
- slur,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- square,
- staunch,
- stern,
- stint,
- straitlaced,
- stricture,
- stringent,
- subtle,
- suppressive,
- tender-conscienced,
- thorough,
- tough,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- uncompromising,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- unerring,
- unsparing,
- unsympathetic,
- veracious,
- veridical