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Adjective: strict (stricter,strictest)  strikt
  1. Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
    "a strict vegetarian";
    - rigorous
  2. (of rules) stringently enforced
    "strict rules";
    - hard-and-fast
  3. Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
    - nonindulgent
  4. Incapable of compromise or flexibility
    - rigid
  5. Severe and unremitting in making demands
    "strict standards";
    - stern, exacting

Derived forms: strictest, stricter

See also: abstemious, austere, blue, corrective, demanding, disciplinal, disciplinary, exact, exacting, intolerant, invariable, monkish, puritanic, puritanical, renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-controlled, self-denying, self-disciplined, self-restraining, severe, spartan, stern

Encyclopedia: Strict