Meaning

  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.

Synonyms

be severe

be stiff

be rigid

be strict

stong

very hard

narrow sense

be rigorous

be stern

not natural

very tight

Violent

severe words

beardown

insistent

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/stɹɪkt/
Etymology

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

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