strict
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adjective
1. Strained; drawn close; tight.
"strict embrace"
2. Tense; not relaxed.
"strict fiber"
3. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
"to keep strict watch"
4. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
"very strict in observing the Sabbath"
5. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
"to understand words in a strict sense"
6. Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
7. Severe in discipline.
"It was a very strict lesson."
8. Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
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Source: en.wiktionary.org
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