1. Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
   "a strict vegetarian"
   - rigorous 
2. (of rules) stringently enforced
   - hard-and-fast 
3. Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
   - nonindulgent 
4. Incapable of compromise or flexibility
   - rigid 
5. Severe and unremitting in making demands
   "strict standards"
   - stern, exacting

Derived forms: strictest, stricter

See also: abstemious, austere, blue, corrective, demanding, disciplinal, disciplinary, exact, intolerant, invariable, monkish, puritanic, puritanical, renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-controlled, self-denying, self-disciplined, self-restraining, severe, spartan, stern, strictly, strictness

Encyclopedia: Strict

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