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adjective

• Strained; drawn close; tight.

  Example: strict embrace

• Tense; not relaxed.

  Example: strict fiber

• Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.

  Example: to keep strict watch

• Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.

  Example: very strict in observing the Sabbath

• Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.

  Example: to understand words in a strict sense

• Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

• Severe in discipline.

  Example: It was a very strict lesson.

• Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.