strict

Phrases
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The  " Admiral   Graf  Spee"  was   under   strict   instructions   to   adhere   prize   rules .

Le "Admiral Graf Spee" était sous des instructions strictes pour respecter les règles du prix.

Signification (Anglais)

  1. Strained; drawn close; tight.
  2. Tense; not relaxed.
  3. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
  4. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
  5. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
  6. Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
  7. Severe in discipline.
  8. Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.

Opposé de
lenient, lax, permissive
Fréquence

C1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/stɹɪkt/
Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (“to draw tight, bind, contract”). Doublet of strait and stretto. See stringent, strain. Related to strong.

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