| Main Entry: | draconian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh |
Synonyms: |
brutal, cruel, drastic, exorbitant, extreme, heavy-handed, oppressive, rough, severe, strict, very severe |
| Main Entry: | inclement |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, merciless |
Synonyms: |
callous, draconian, harsh, intemperate, pitiless, rigorous, ruthless, savage, severe, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful |
Antonyms: |
kind, merciful, nice, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | strict |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | authoritarian |
Synonyms: |
austere, dead set, disciplinary, dour, draconian*, exacting, firm, forbidding, grim, hard, hard-boiled, harsh, iron-fisted, no-nonsense, oppressive, picky, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, set, severe, square, stern, stickling, straight, strait-laced, stringent, stuffy, tough, unpermissive, unsparing, uptight* |
| Notes: | stringent often means simply 'strict, strictly regulated' and also 'tight or constricted' and emphasizes the narrowness of what is permitted, while strict emphasizes the sternness with which something is enforced |
Antonyms: |
amenable, easy-going, flexible, lenient, tolerant, tractable, yielding |
| Main Entry: | stringent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rigid, tight |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, binding, brick-wall, by the book, by the numbers, compelling, confining, convincing, dead set on, demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool, exacting, forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, iron-fisted, ironclad, picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict, tough, unpermissive, valid |
Antonyms: |
flexible, inexact, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | strong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extreme |
Synonyms: |
acute, draconian, drastic, forceful, intense, keen, severe, sharp, strict |
Antonyms: |
mild, moderate |