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Adjectives (5)
strict
adj. "strict parents"
rigorous
adj. rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
Spartan
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"
Fuzzynyms (24)
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
Synonyms (34)
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"
Antonyms (4)
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
strict
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