strict
pronunciation
How to pronounce strict in British English:
UK [strɪkt]
How to pronounce strict in American English:
US [strɪkt]
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- Adjective:
- (of rules) stringently enforced
- rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
- incapable of compromise or flexibility
- not indulgent
- unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
- severe and unremitting in making demands
Word Origin
- strict
- strict: [16] Strict was acquired direct from strictus, the past participle of Latin stringere ‘pull tight, tighten’ (source also of English prestige, strain, and stringent). The original literal sense ‘tight’ survived into English (‘She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace’, Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis 1592), but it has since given way to various metaphorical extensions.Routed via Old French, strictus has given English strait, and English is also indebted to it for stress [14] (via the Vulgar Latin derivative *strictia) and stricture [14], not to mention prefixed forms such as constrain, constrict [18], distrain, distress, district, restrain, and restrict [16].=> constrain, constrict, distrain, distress, district, prestige, restrain, restrict, strain, stress, stricture, stringent
- strict (adj.)
- early 15c., "narrow, drawn in, small," from Latin strictus "drawn together, close, tight," past participle of stringere (2) "to draw or bind tight" (see strain (v.)). The sense of "stringent and rigorous" (of law) is first found in 1570s; of qualities or conditions generally, 1590s.
Example
- 1. Lots of countries are strict about rubbish .
- 2. France , with little tradition of discovery , has strict privacy laws .
- 3. Germany 's push for strict discipline is essentially for public consumption .
- 4. Are present cell phone safety standards strict enough ?
- 5. In the website below , you can see a very strict grid layout in use .