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strict - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: strict
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: authoritarian
Synonyms: austere, disciplinary, dour, draconian*, exacting, firm, forbidding, grim, hard, hard-boiled*, harsh, no-nonsense*, oppressive, picky, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, set, severe, square, stern, straight, strait-laced*, stringent, stuffy*, tough, unsparing, uptight*, dead set, iron-fisted, stickling, unpermissive
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, flexible, lenient, tolerant, tractable, yielding, easy-going
Main Entry: strict
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: accurate, absolute
Synonyms: close, complete, exact, faithful, just, meticulous, particular, perfect, precise, religious, right, scrupulous, total, true, utter, veracious, undistorted, veridical
Antonyms: inaccurate, indefinite, uncertain
Main Entry: ascetic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: self-denying
Synonyms: Spartan, abstemious, austere, puritanical, strict, abstaining, abstinent, disciplined
Main Entry: authoritarian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domineering
Synonyms: absolute, authoritative, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, disciplinarian, doctrinaire, dogmatic, harsh, imperious, magisterial, rigid, severe, strict, totalitarian, tyrannical, unyielding
Antonyms: democratic, liberal
Main Entry: bossy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domineering
Synonyms: authoritarian, commanding, controlling, despotic, dictatorial, high-handed, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, overpowering, pushy, strict, tyrannical, iron-handed
Main Entry: demanding
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: challenging, urgent
Synonyms: ambitious, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty, backbreaker, exhausting, nagging
Antonyms: easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding
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: exacting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: demanding
Synonyms: burdensome, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty, by the book, nit-picking
Antonyms: giving, lending
Main Entry: hard-boiled
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tough
Synonyms: callous, firm, hard-line*, hard-nosed, headstrong, inflexible, obdurate, obstinate, rough, stern, strict, unbending, unfeeling, hard as nails, hard-shelled
Main Entry: hard-line
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: firm
Synonyms: adamant, hard-boiled*, hard-core, hard-nosed, inflexible, militant, stand pat*, staunch, steadfast, stern, stiff, strict, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, ungiving
Main Entry: literal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: word for word; exact, real
Synonyms: accurate, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, natural, ordinary, plain, scrupulous, simple, strict, true, unerring, unvarnished, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, written, not figurative, to the letter, undeviating, unexaggerated
Antonyms: exaggerated, figurative, imaginative, loose
Main Entry: meticulous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: detailed, perfectionist
Synonyms: accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, crossing the t's, dotting the i's, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking*, painstaking, particular, persnickety*, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough
Antonyms: careless, messy, sloppy, undetailed
Main Entry: punctilious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, finicky
Synonyms: ceremonious, conscientious, conventional, exact, formal, fussy, heedful, meticulous, nice, observant, painstaking, particular, persnickety, precise, proper, punctual, scrupulous, strict, conscionable, formalistic, good eye, overconscientious, overscrupulous, right on
Antonyms: careless, informal, uncaring, easy-going
Main Entry: punctual
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: on time
Synonyms: accurate, careful, conscientious, constant, dependable, early, exact, expeditious, fussy, heedful, meticulous, on the nose*, painstaking, particular, periodic, precise, prompt, punctilious, quick, ready, recurrent, regular, reliable, scrupulous, seasonable, steady, strict, timely, under the wire*, conscionable, cyclic, in good time, on schedule, on the button, on the dot
Antonyms: late, tardy
Main Entry: puritanical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: proper, straitlaced
Synonyms: austere, conforming, moral, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, rigid, stern, strict, stuffy, abstinent
Main Entry: regimented
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strictly regulated
Synonyms: ordered, orderly, organized, strict, systematic, uniform, controlled, disciplined
Antonyms: free, varied
Main Entry: rigorous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: severe; exact
Synonyms: accurate, ascetic, austere, bitter, brutal, burdensome, correct, definite, dogmatic, exacting, hard, harsh, inclement, inflexible, intemperate, meticulous, nice, onerous, oppressive, precise, proper, punctilious, right, rigid, rugged, scrupulous, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, uncompromising, ironhanded, unpermissive
Antonyms: easy, lax, lenient, loose, mild, easy-going
Main Entry: scrupulous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extremely careful
Synonyms: conscientious, critical, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, honest, honorable, just, meticulous, minute, moral, nice, painstaking, particular, precise, punctilious, punctual, right, rigorous, strict, true, upright, conscionable, principled, thinking twice
Antonyms: careless, negligent, unscrupulous
Main Entry: starchy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: formal, stiff
Synonyms: ceremonious, conventional, inflexible, mannered, prim, reserved, rigid, stilted, strait-laced, strict, stuffy*, starched
Main Entry: stern
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: serious, authoritarian
Synonyms: ascetic, astringent, austere, bitter, bullheaded, cruel, disciplinary, dyed-in-the-wool*, flinty, forbidding, frowning, grim, hard, hard-boiled*, hard-core*, hard-line*, hard-nosed, hardheaded*, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, mulish, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, severe, strict, stubborn, tough, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding, by the book, hang-tough, hard-shell, mortified, steely, stiff-necked*
Antonyms: cheerful, funny, lenient, light, tolerant, smiling
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