strict

strict
[[t]strɪ̱kt[/t]]
♦♦♦
stricter, strictest
1) ADJ-GRADED A strict rule or order is very clear and precise or severe and must always be obeyed completely.

The officials had issued strict instructions that we were not to get out of the jeep...

French privacy laws are very strict...

All your replies will be treated in the strictest confidence...

Even if you are on a fairly strict diet you can still go out for a good meal.

Derived words:
strictly ADV-GRADED ADV with v

The acceptance of new members is strictly controlled.

2) ADJ-GRADED If a parent or other person in authority is strict, they regard many actions as unacceptable and do not allow them.

My parents were very strict.

...a few schools selected for their high standards and their strict discipline.

Derived words:
strictly ADV-GRADED

My own mother was brought up very strictly and correctly.

strictness N-UNCOUNT

The girl lied because she resented her parents' strictness.

3) ADJ-GRADED: ADJ n If you talk about the strict meaning of something, you mean the precise meaning of it.
See also strict

It's not quite peace in the strictest sense of the word, rather the absence of war.

Derived words:
strictly ADV ADV adj

Actually, that is not strictly true...

Strictly speaking, it is not one house at all, but three houses joined together.

4) ADJ: ADJ n You use strict to describe someone who never does things that are against their beliefs.

Four million Britons are now strict vegetarians...

He was a strict, old-school Freudian.


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