strict

adjective

1. 1

   Strained; drawn close; tight.

   “strict embrace”

2. 2

   Tense; not relaxed.

   “strict fiber”

3. 3

   Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.

   “to keep strict watch”

4. 4

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

   “very strict in observing the Sabbath”

5. 5

   Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.

   “to understand words in a strict sense”

6. 6

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

7. 7

   Severe in discipline.

   “It was a very strict lesson.”

8. 8

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