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adj. "strict parents"

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

adj. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"

rigid

adj. incapable of compromise or flexibility

hard-and-fast

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

precise

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

right, correct

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"

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

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

nice, meticulous, punctilious

adj. marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

Spartan, ascetic, ascetical, austere

adj. practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"

Spartan

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

tense

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

authoritarian, dictatorial

adj. likened to a dictator in severity

nonindulgent

adj. characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

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"

literal, verbal, verbatim, word-for-word

adj. "literal translation of the article"; "a verbatim report of the conversation"; "a verbal translation"

perfect, mathematical

adj. perfectly accurate or exact: "hit the mathematical center of the target"; "mathematical precision"

blue, puritan, puritanical

adj. morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal

adj. designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

monkish

adj. befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial

renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying

adj. used especially of behavior

self-disciplined

adj. used of nonindulgent persons

bigoted

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

constant, steady, unchanging, changeless, unvarying, invariant

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

invariant

adj. unaffected by a designated operation or transformation

unfailing

adj. always able to supply more; "an unfailing source of good stories"; "a subject of unfailing interest"

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"

indulgent, self-indulgent

adj. characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; "indulgent grandparents"

tolerant

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

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