strict
- Adjective. Strained; drawn close; tight.
- Adjective. Tense; not relaxed.
- Adjective. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.
- Adjective. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
- Adjective. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
- Adjective. (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
- Adjective. Severe in discipline.
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