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STRICT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Severe and unremitting in making demands
Example:
strict standards
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
demanding (requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill)
Derivation:
strictness (uncompromising resolution)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
Example:
a strict vegetarian
Synonyms:
rigorous; strict
Classified under:
Similar:
exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)
Derivation:
strictness (conscientious attention to rules and details)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
Synonyms:
nonindulgent; strict
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
austere; stern (of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect)
blue; puritanic; puritanical (morally rigorous and strict)
corrective; disciplinal; disciplinary (designed to promote discipline)
monkish (befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial)
renunciant; renunciative; self-abnegating; self-denying (used especially of behavior)
self-disciplined; self-restraining (used of nonindulgent persons)
severe; spartan (unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment)
Also:
abstemious (sparing in consumption of especially food and drink)
Derivation:
strictness (uncompromising resolution)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Incapable of compromise or flexibility
Synonyms:
rigid; strict
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intolerant (unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion)
Derivation:
strictness (uncompromising resolution)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(of rules) stringently enforced
Example:
hard-and-fast rules
Synonyms:
hard-and-fast; strict
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
invariable (not liable to or capable of change)
Derivation:
strictness (conscientious attention to rules and details)
Context examples:
Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact.
(Exact, NCI Thesaurus)
Currently, the only treatment for red meat allergy once it is diagnosed is strict avoidance of red meat.
(Researchers have found a link between allergen in red meat and heart disease, National Institutes of Health)
In ordinary life, he was a strict Puritan—a silent, gloomy fellow.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Nay," Ebbits said gravely, with a stricter sense of justice. "Wrong has been done us, it be true; but the white men did not mean the wrong."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The use of sweeteners, which are subject to strict controls by these organizations, is safe as long as they are consumed within the Acceptable Daily Intake.
(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)
He pressed for the strictest forbearance and silence towards their niece; she not only promised, but did observe it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I shall write to Mrs. Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look-out for any thing eligible.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"I felt myself," she added, "to be as solemnly engaged to him, as if the strictest legal covenant had bound us to each other."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Members of this family are strict herbivores and can be classified as either browsers or grazers depending on how they feed.
(Equidae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
