adv
Meaning 1
In a strict manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He adhered strictly to the diet his doctor prescribed.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
strictly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈstɹɪktli/
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CMU ARPABET: S T R IH1 K T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
In a limited manner; only
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
In a narrow or limited sense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- That term refers strictly to smaller birds.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
In a manner that applies to every member of a set or every interval of a function
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 5
Strictly Come Dancing, a television show
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 6
restricted to something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we talked strictly business
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: purely
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 7
in a rigorous manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he had been trained rigorously by the monks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rigorously
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 8
in a stringent manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the laws are stringently enforced
- stringently controlled
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stringently
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English strict Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English strictly From strict + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: точно (točno) — in a strict manner
- Bulgarian: стриктно (striktno) — in a strict manner
- Dutch: strikt — in a strict manner
- Dutch: streng — in a strict manner
- French: strictement — in a strict manner
- Italian: strettamente — in a strict manner
- Italian: severamente — in a strict manner
- Italian: rigidamente — in a strict manner
- Malayalam: കർശനമായി (kaṟśanamāyi) — in a strict manner
- Middle English: narowly — in a strict manner
- Polish: surowo — in a strict manner
- Portuguese: estritamente — in a strict manner
- Russian: стро́го (strógo) — in a strict manner
- Spanish: estrictamente — in a strict manner
- Spanish: terminantemente — in a strict manner
- Spanish: a rajatabla — in a strict manner
- Swedish: strikt — in a strict manner
- Bulgarian: ограничено (ograničeno) — in a limited manner
- Dutch: strikt — in a limited manner
- Italian: prettamente — in a limited manner
- Italian: propriamente — in a limited manner
- Italian: assolutamente — in a limited manner
- Polish: tylko — in a limited manner
- Polish: wyłącznie — in a limited manner
- Dutch: strikt — in a narrow or limited sense
- Dutch: strikt genomen — in a narrow or limited sense
- Italian: esclusivamente — in a narrow or limited sense
- Italian: tassativamente — in a narrow or limited sense
- Polish: dokładnie — in a narrow or limited sense
- Polish: sensu stricto — in a narrow or limited sense
- Polish: stricte — in a narrow or limited sense
- Polish: ściśle — in a narrow or limited sense
- Portuguese: estritamente — in a narrow or limited sense
Real reading context