strict

English

/stɹɪkt/

adj
Definitions
  • 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.
  • (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
  • Severe in discipline.
  • (set theory) Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin strictus (tightened, narrow, compressed, having been tightened, tight) root from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (line, stroke, shear, strip, brush, strike, rub, press, cord, stiff, rigid, rope, tight).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*streyg-

Gloss

line, stroke, shear, strip, brush, strike, rub, press, cord, stiff, rigid, rope, tight

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Kanji

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