Meaning
- Strained; drawn close; tight.
- Tense; not relaxed.
- Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
- Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
- Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
- Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
- Severe in discipline.
- 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
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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