Strict Synonyms and Antonyms

strĭkt
Not deviating from correctness, accuracy, or completeness
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. close
  2. exact
  3. faithful
  4. full
  5. rigorous
Rigorous and unsparing in treating others
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. stern
  2. severe
  3. rigid
  4. exacting
  5. hard
  6. harsh
  7. stringent
  8. austere
  9. tough
  10. demanding
  11. absolute
  12. accurate
  13. adamant
  14. ascetic
  15. authoritarian
  16. cenobitic
  17. complete
  18. confining
  19. conscientious
  20. disciplinary
  21. draconian
  22. exact
  23. faithful
  24. inclement
  25. inexorable
  26. inflexible
  27. inquisitorial
  28. intransigent
  29. ironclad
  30. narrow
  31. obdurate
  32. onerous
  33. oppressive
  34. orthodox
  35. perfect
  36. pharisaical
  37. precise
  38. punctilious
  39. puritanical
  40. restricting
  41. rhadamanthine
  42. rigoristic
  43. rigorous
  44. ruthless
  45. sabbatarian
  46. scrupulous
  47. unyielding
  48. stark
  49. stiff
  50. straight
  51. straitlaced
  52. tense
  53. tight
  54. true
  55. tyrannical
  56. uncompromising
  57. undeviating
  58. unsparing
  59. upright
Antonyms:
  1. indulgent
  2. lax
  3. remiss
  4. imprecise
  5. loose
  6. inaccurate
  7. uncertain
  8. indefinite
  9. lenient
  10. tractable
  11. yielding
  12. amenable
  13. flexible
  14. easy-going
  15. tolerant
Conforming completely to established rule
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. rigorous
  2. exact
  3. uncompromising
Antonyms:
  1. indulgent
  2. lax
  3. remiss
  4. imprecise
  5. loose
  6. inaccurate
  7. uncertain
  8. indefinite
(of rules) stringently enforced
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hard-and-fast
Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. nonindulgent
Requiring close observance or demanding in expectations:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. severe

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Strict Sentence Examples

  • I'm under strict orders to keep you safe.

  • In fact, he had given her strict orders not to lift anything.

  • The strict rules of their noble births seemed irrelevant now.

  • He gave everybody strict orders to leave you alone.

  • The boy was jubilant to be with a dad he loved and away from an overly strict mom.

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