strict

Meaning

Adjective

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

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere. strait, and stretto. See stringent, strain.