strict
characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
stringent or exacting in or in enforcing rules, requirements, obligations, etc.: strict laws; a strict judge.
closely or rigorously enforced or maintained: strict silence.
exact or precise: a strict statement of facts.
extremely defined or conservative; narrowly or carefully limited: a strict construction of the Constitution.
close, careful, or minute: a strict search.
absolute, perfect, or complete; utmost: told in strict confidence.
stern; severe; austere: strict parents.
Obsolete. drawn tight or close.
Origin of strict
1synonym study For strict
Other words for strict
Opposites for strict
Other words from strict
- strictness, noun
- o·ver·strict, adjective
- su·per·strict, adjective
- su·per·strict·ly, adverb
- su·per·strict·ness, noun
- un·strict, adjective
- un·strict·ly, adverb
- un·strict·ness, noun
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How to use strict in a sentence
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari advocates for a six-week shutdown stricter than state orders back in March.
A second lockdown proposed by Trump would get more support from Americans than one proposed by Biden | Lance Lambert | September 5, 2020 | FortuneIn its first official weigh-in on the issue, the group lays out strict scientific criteria that would need to be met before heritable gene editing could be tried clinically.
Strict new guidelines lay out a path to heritable human gene editing | Tina Hesman Saey | September 3, 2020 | Science NewsI was raised in a Muslim household with quite strict Muslim rules and Islamic rules, and one of them is that we don’t do interest.
Tan France Goes Deep on Racism and When He Almost Quit ‘Queer Eye’ | Eugene Robinson | September 3, 2020 | OzyThe Hatch Act of 1939 puts strict limits on federal employees’ ability to participate in electioneering, including a ban on using their “official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.”
This includes designing strict procedures for how a lab should conduct the tests.
Scientists to Wall Street: You don’t really understand how COVID vaccine tests work | Jeremy Kahn | August 24, 2020 | Fortune
The ad would then count as a coordinated communication and would be subject to strict spending limits.
First, it would reduce the kinds of ads that would be subject to strict limits.
People often forget that the National Panhellenic council used to enforce racial segregation by means of strict codes and laws.
Stepford Sororities: The Pressures of USC’s Greek Life | Maya Richard Craven | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFree from strict rules, Japanese distillers are making innovative, artful concoctions.
Watch Out, Scotland! Japanese Whisky Is on the Rise | Kayleigh Kulp | November 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut beyond the strict realm of national security, the Arctic is becoming increasingly important to Russia economically.
For these reasons we keep strict and careful watch over them, since the suspicions conceived of them have been often verified.
In a strict sense, of course, no child's drawing is absolutely spontaneous and independent of external stimulus and guidance.
Children's Ways | James SullyBut it was not necessary for him to enquire how strict, or how apparently long, was to be his confinement.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterHow strict a Guard then ought the true Satyrist to set upon his private Passions!
A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope | Colley Cibber"According to English ideas it seemed strict, of course," the other said persuasively, so that he went on.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwood
British Dictionary definitions for strict
/ (strɪkt) /
adhering closely to specified rules, ordinances, etc: a strict faith
complied with or enforced stringently; rigorous: a strict code of conduct
severely correct in attention to rules of conduct or morality: a strict teacher
(of a punishment, etc) harsh; severe
(prenominal) complete; absolute: in strict secrecy
logic maths (of a relation)
applying more narrowly than some other relation often given the same name, as strict inclusion, which holds only between pairs of sets that are distinct, while simple inclusion permits the case in which they are identical: See also proper (def. 9), ordering
distinguished from a relation of the same name that is not the subject of formal study
botany rare very straight, narrow, and upright: strict panicles
Origin of strict
1Derived forms of strict
- strictly, adverb
- strictness, noun
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