strict
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strict/strɪkt/
▶adjective
- 1 demanding that rules concerning behaviour are obeyed.
■ (of a rule) demanding total compliance; rigidly enforced.
- 2 following rules or beliefs exactly.
- 3 not allowing deviation or relaxation.
– derivatives
strictness noun.
strictness noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘restricted in space or extent’): from L. strictus, stringere ‘tighten’.
'strict' also found in these Oxford entries:
Amish
- austere
- authoritarian
- blue law
- Capuchin
- conventual
- day
- discalced
- dry
- firm
- fugato
- fundamentalism
- glatt
- hard
- Haredi
- harridan
- heavy
- hot
- ikebana
- international style
- lax
- legitimate
- liberty
- logic
- loose
- loosen
- martinet
- moral majority
- observant
- Orthodox Judaism
- pedagogue
- persevere
- Pharisee
- Plymouth Brethren
- properly
- puritanical
- Ramadan
- ramrod
- regiment
- rein
- relax
- rigorism
- rubato
- sabbatarian
- schoolmarm
- Seventh-Day Adventist
- severe
- spirit
- stern
- strait
