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adj
Strained; drawn close; tight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: taut, tensioned, nonslack, strained, stretched, strict, tense, tight
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Tense; not relaxed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: correct, dead on, thorough, accurate, careful, surgical, 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, strict, tight
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: nice, precise, puritanical
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: narrow, proper
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adj
Severe in discipline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: 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, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, unsympathetic, unmoved
Antonyms: lenient, lax, permissive
adj
Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, order-theory, sciences, set-theory
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: nonindulgent
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
severe and unremitting in making demands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stern, exacting
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rigorous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
incapable of compromise or flexibility
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rigid
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(of rules) stringently enforced
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hard-and-fast
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (“to draw tight, bind, contract”). Doublet of strait and stretto. See stringent, strain. Related to strong.
Across languages
109 source translations are retained for this English entry.
