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strict

adj. "strict parents"

nonindulgent, strict

adj. characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

rigid, strict

adj. incapable of compromise or flexibility

hard-and-fast, strict

adj. (of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules"

rigorous, strict

adj. rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

tense

adj. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

precise

adj. sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"

correct, right

adj. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"

priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

nice, skillful

adj. done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"

authoritarian, dictatorial

adj. likened to a dictator in severity

nonindulgent

adj. characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

bigoted

adj. blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"

changeless, constant, invariant, unvarying

adj. unvarying in nature; "maintained a constant temperature"; "principles of unvarying validity"

invariant

adj. unaffected by a designated operation or transformation

unfailing, unflagging

adj. unceasing; "unfailing loyalty"; "unfailing good spirits"; "unflagging courtesy"

accurate

adj. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"

approximate, approximative

adj. not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"

literal

adj. without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him"

direct, verbatim

adj. in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"

perfect

adj. precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"

permissive

adj. granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"

self-indulgent

adj. indulgent of your own appetites and desires; "a self-indulgent...way of looking at life"- Havelock Ellis

tolerant

adj. showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others

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