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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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