strict
Adjective
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Rigidly accurate;
Allowing no deviation from a standard (synset 300918670)"rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"similar to: exact - marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with factsame as: rigorous -
(of rules) stringently enforced (synset 302516312)
"hard-and-fast rules"similar to: invariable - not liable to or capable of changesame as: hard-and-fast
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Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint (synset 301302836)
also: abstemious - sparing in consumption of especially food and drinksimilar to:
- austere, stern - of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
- blue, puritanic, puritanical - morally rigorous and strict
- corrective, disciplinal, disciplinary - designed to promote discipline
- monkish - befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial
- renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying - used especially of behavior
- self-disciplined, self-restraining - used of nonindulgent persons
- severe, spartan - unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
same as: nonindulgent -
Incapable of compromise or flexibility (synset 302446199)
similar to: intolerant - unwilling to tolerate difference of opinionsame as: rigid
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Severe and unremitting in making demands (synset 300714774)
"an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"similar to: demanding - requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill
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