strict

  • (s) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
    • rigorous application of the law
    • a strict vegetarian
    rigorous,
  • (s) (of rules) stringently enforced
    • hard-and-fast rules
    hard-and-fast,
  • (a) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint nonindulgent,
  • (s) incapable of compromise or flexibility rigid,
  • (s) severe and unremitting in making demands
    • an exacting instructor
    • a stern disciplinarian
    • strict standards
    exacting, stern,

Synonyms

rigorous hard-and-fast nonindulgent rigid exacting stern

Antonyms

indulgent

See also

abstemious

Words of close approximity

stria strip Strix
stride strife strike string stripe stripy strive
strictly strictly speaking strictness stricture