Borrowed fromLatin strictus stringere ( “ to draw tight, bind, contract ” ) .Doublet ofstrait stretto stringent strain strong
strict (comparative stricter or morestrict ,superlative strictest or moststrict )
Strained ; drawn close;tight .Synonyms: taut tensioned see also Thesaurus:taut strict embrace
strict ligature
Tense ; notrelaxed .strict fiber
Exact ;accurate ;precise ; rigorouslyparticular .Synonyms: correct dead on thorough see also Thesaurus:meticulous to keepstrict watch
to paystrict attention
Governed or governing byexact rules ; observing exact rules;severe ;rigorous .Synonyms: ( obsolete ) nice precise puritanical they are verystrict in observing the Sabbath
1904–1905 i.e. ,Emma Orczy ], “The Hocussing of Cigarette ”, inThe Case of Miss Elliott T[homas] Fisher Unwin , published1905 ,→OCLC OCLC 11192831 The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html)Project Gutenberg of Australia , February 2020:No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were verystrict ; he had often threatened any one of hisemployés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited;confined ;restricted .Synonyms: narrow proper to understand words in astrict sense
( botany ) Severe indiscipline .Synonyms: brutal harsh stringent tough see also Thesaurus:stern Antonyms: lenient lax permissive Our teacher was always verystrict . If we didn't behave, we would get punished.
It was a verystrict lesson.
( set theory , order theory) Irreflexive ;if the described object is defined to bereflexive , that condition is overridden and replaced withirreflexive .Stricter andstrictest are the grammatically correct forms for the comparative and superlative though outside the UKmore strict andmost strict are more often used.strained; drawn close; tight
governed or governing by exact rules
botany: upright, or straight and narrow
severe in discipline
Arabic:صَارِم ( ṣārim ) Armenian:please add this translation if you can Basque:gogor Belarusian:стро́гі ( stróhi ) ,суро́вы ( suróvy ) Bulgarian:строг (bg) ( strog ) ,взискателен (bg) ( vziskatelen ) Catalan:estricte (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:嚴格 / 严格 (zh) ( yángé ) Czech:přísný (cs) Danish:streng Dutch:streng (nl) Esperanto:severa (eo) Finnish:ankara (fi) French:strict (fr) Georgian:მკაცრი ( mḳacri ) German:streng (de) Hindi:सख़्त ( saxt ) Hungarian:szigorú (hu) Italian:austero (it) severo (it) Japanese:厳しい (ja) ( きびしい, kibishii ) Khmer:កឹង ( kəng ) ,គគ្រីតគគ្រូស ( kɔkriit-kɔkruuh ) ,ប្រិត (km) ( prət ) Korean:엄격하다 (ko) ( eomgyeokhada ) Māori:pākaha Mongolian:please add this translation if you can Norwegian:streng (no) Polish:surowy (pl) ,srogi (pl) Portuguese:austero (pt) ,severo (pt) Romanian:strict (ro) ,sever (ro) Russian:стро́гий (ru) ( strógij ) ,суро́вый (ru) ( suróvyj ) Slovak:prísny strohý Spanish:estricto (es) Swedish:sträng (sv) Tagalog:mahigpit estrikto Thai:เคร่ง (th) ( krêng ) ,เข้มงวด (th) ( kêm-ngûuat ) Ukrainian:стро́гий ( stróhyj ) ,суво́рий ( suvóryj ) Urdu:سخت ( saxt ) Vietnamese:nghiêm khắc (vi) Walloon:deur (wa) ,straegne (wa) ,strik (wa)
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“strict ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “strict ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC Borrowed fromLatin strictus stringere ( “ to draw tight, bind, contract ” ) .Doublet ofétroit
strict (feminine stricte masculine plural stricts feminine plural strictes
strict Borrowed fromFrench strict Latin strictus Doublet ofstrâmt
strict m or n feminine singular strictă masculine plural stricți feminine/neuter plural stricte
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