Synonyms for Strict:

• adj.

  •accurate (adjective)
  • un-disputed,
  • ultraprecise,
  • on button,
  • on the money,
  • de-fined,
  • un disputed,
  • more defined,
  • un-impeachable,
  • more unrefuted,
  • most unrefuted,
  • dis-criminating,
  • un-erring,
  • on nose,
  • more careful,
  • un-deniable,
  • un-mistakable,
  • most certain,
  • more valid,
  • dis criminating,
  • un impeachable,
  • re gular,
  • explicit,
  • dis criminative,
  • most defined,
  • re-gular,
  • ultra precise,
  • on money,
  • un-questionable,
  • un-refuted,
  • de finite,
  • de tailed,
  • de-finite,
  • un refuted,
  • most ultraprecise,
  • valid,
  • de fined,
  • more concrete,
  • dis-criminative,
  • final,
  • ultra-precise,
  • in fallible,
  • un erring,
  • in-fallible,
  • un mistakable,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • un deniable,
  • un questionable,
  • more ultraprecise,
  • de-tailed.
  •accurate, absolute (adjective)
  • veracious,
  • utter,
  • particular,
  • undistorted,
  • religious,
  • complete,
  • veridical,
  • right,
  • total.
  •ascetic (adjective)
  • abstinent,
  • disciplined.
  •austere (adjective)
  • un feeling,
  • self denying,
  • self disciplined,
  • more self-disciplined,
  • in exorable,
  • more self disciplined,
  • most self disciplined,
  • more straightlaced,
  • un relenting,
  • more serious,
  • forbidding,
  • in-exorable,
  • un-feeling,
  • most straightlaced,
  • selfdenying,
  • un-relenting,
  • most self-disciplined,
  • somber,
  • more selfdisciplined,
  • most selfdisciplined.
  •authoritarian (adjective)
  • stuffy,
  • straight,
  • prudish,
  • disciplinary,
  • picky,
  • oppressive,
  • dour,
  • unsparing,
  • unpermissive,
  • rigid,
  • dead set,
  • square,
  • grim,
  • harsh,
  • severe,
  • stern.
  •bossy (adjective)
  • iron-handed,
  • highhanded,
  • high-handed.
  •conscientious (adjective)
  • high principled,
  • in-corruptible,
  • highprincipled,
  • more highprincipled,
  • more high-principled,
  • highminded,
  • most conscionable,
  • high minded,
  • more high principled,
  • in corruptible,
  • most highprincipled,
  • most high-principled,
  • more conscionable,
  • most high principled.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • rubest,
  • most straight-laced,
  • narrow minded,
  • de-mure,
  • rube,
  • de mure,
  • more straight-laced,
  • more straight laced,
  • stereo typed,
  • more isolationist,
  • hidebound,
  • lamest,
  • stereo-typed,
  • most straight laced,
  • narrowminded,
  • straight laced,
  • most doctrinal,
  • obstinate,
  • more doctrinal,
  • most isolationist.
  •correct (adjective)
  • on track,
  • free of error,
  • on the beam,
  • dead on,
  • unmistaken,
  • stoner,
  • right as rain,
  • on target,
  • cooking with gas.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • most backbreaker,
  • more backbreaker,
  • importunate.
  •draconian (adjective)
  • heavy handed,
  • heavyhanded.
  •exact (adjective)
  • ex act,
  • ex-act.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • more nit picking,
  • by book,
  • more nit-picking,
  • most nit picking,
  • most nit-picking,
  • ex-acting,
  • un-sparing,
  • hyper-critical,
  • hyper critical,
  • ex acting,
  • nit picking,
  • un sparing.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • super incumbent,
  • super-incumbent,
  • more superincumbent,
  • superincumbent,
  • most superincumbent.
  •extreme (adjective)
  • extra ordinary,
  • overkill,
  • egregious,
  • out of proportion,
  • strong,
  • out and out.
  •fine (adjective)
  • un polluted,
  • more fine spun,
  • more hairline,
  • most fine spun,
  • un-adulterated,
  • un adulterated,
  • fine spun,
  • more hairsplitting,
  • most enigmatic,
  • re fined,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • more unpolluted,
  • most unpolluted,
  • trifling,
  • un-polluted,
  • most hairline,
  • most fine-spun,
  • more fine-spun.
  •firm (adjective)
  • un-flinching,
  • un-shaken,
  • most stipulated,
  • most resolved,
  • more resolved,
  • un deviating,
  • more undeviating,
  • most never failing,
  • un-changeable,
  • persistent,
  • un-wavering,
  • un changeable,
  • staunch,
  • un-qualified,
  • un qualified,
  • un-deviating,
  • re-solute,
  • most undeviating,
  • re-solved,
  • most neverfailing,
  • more neverfailing,
  • un-shakable,
  • pre vailing,
  • more never-failing,
  • most never-failing,
  • neverfailing,
  • un shaken,
  • more stipulated,
  • never failing,
  • un wavering,
  • re solute,
  • un flinching,
  • un shakable,
  • more never failing,
  • in tent.
  •formal (adjective)
  • more ritual,
  • ex-press,
  • stereo-typical,
  • more formalistic,
  • most formalistic,
  • more ceremonialistic,
  • pre-scribed,
  • most ritual,
  • formal,
  • ex press,
  • most ceremonialistic,
  • stereo typical,
  • pre scribed.
  •good (adjective)
  • well-founded.
  •hard (adjective)
  • hard as nails,
  • coldblooded,
  • harder.
  •hard-boiled (adjective)
  • headstrong,
  • hardshelled,
  • hard nosed,
  • more hard-shelled,
  • more hard shelled,
  • hard boiled,
  • more hardshelled,
  • hard-nosed,
  • more hard nosed,
  • hard shelled,
  • most hardshelled,
  • most hard-shelled,
  • head strong,
  • most hard shelled.
  •hard-line (adjective)
  • hard line,
  • hard core,
  • Ungiving,
  • hardcore.
  •inalterable (adjective)
  • in variable,
  • in-alterable,
  • in-variable,
  • in alterable.
  •inflexible (adjective)
  • un compliant,
  • most unadaptable,
  • steelier,
  • more unadaptable,
  • set in ones ways,
  • stand ones ground,
  • set in ways,
  • set ways,
  • Unswayable,
  • most unswayable,
  • set one ways,
  • un-compliant,
  • un swayable,
  • in tractable,
  • in-tractable,
  • steeliest,
  • set one's ways,
  • un adaptable,
  • un-adaptable,
  • dyed in the wool,
  • set ones ways,
  • stand ground,
  • more unswayable,
  • in flexible,
  • set in one ways,
  • un-swayable,
  • stand one ground,
  • in-flexible,
  • single minded.
  •just (adjective)
  • nondiscriminatory,
  • non-discriminatory,
  • uncolored,
  • non-partisan,
  • ethical,
  • rightful,
  • condign.
  •literal (adjective)
  • unexaggerated,
  • not figurative,
  • the letter,
  • to the letter.
  •meticulous (adjective)
  • dotting i,
  • crossing t,
  • dotting i's,
  • dotting is,
  • dotting the i,
  • crossing the t,
  • most stickling,
  • crossing ts,
  • crossing the ts,
  • crossing t's,
  • dotting the is,
  • more stickling.
  •nice (adjective)
  • most finicking,
  • be-coming,
  • more finicking,
  • well bred,
  • well-bred,
  • wellbred,
  • be-fitting.
  •no-nonsense (adjective)
  • no nonsense,
  • nononsense.
  •perfect (adjective)
  • bulls-eye,
  • to turn,
  • to a turn,
  • bull's eye,
  • a turn.
  •precise (adjective)
  • definite,
  • proper,
  • clear cut,
  • accurate.
  •punctilious (adjective)
  • more overconscientious,
  • most overconscientious,
  • most overscrupulous,
  • over-conscientious,
  • more overscrupulous,
  • good eye,
  • over conscientious,
  • over scrupulous.
  •punctual (adjective)
  • re-current,
  • on schedule,
  • re current,
  • under wire,
  • in good time,
  • on the dot,
  • on dot.
  •regimented (adjective)
  • uni form,
  • uni-form.
  •relentless (adjective)
  • stop at nothing,
  • most hangtough,
  • more unstoppable,
  • most hang tough,
  • more hangtough,
  • un forgiving,
  • most unstoppable,
  • unstoppable,
  • un-forgiving,
  • more hang-tough,
  • un-stoppable,
  • un stoppable,
  • stop nothing,
  • bound determined,
  • in-human,
  • un-appeasable,
  • in human,
  • un appeasable,
  • hangtough,
  • most hang-tough,
  • more hang tough.
  •right (adjective)
  • un doubted,
  • more watertight,
  • in-errant,
  • in-dubitable,
  • most inerrant,
  • un-doubted,
  • most watertight,
  • in dubitable,
  • more inerrant,
  • in errant.
  •rigorous (adjective)
  • most unpermissive,
  • un permissive,
  • un-permissive,
  • more unpermissive.
  •set (adjective)
  • more sited,
  • located,
  • more situate,
  • most jelled,
  • most positioned,
  • hard fast,
  • hard and fast,
  • more positioned,
  • more jelled,
  • Sited,
  • most sited,
  • most situate.
  •severe (adjective)
  • brusque,
  • lean,
  • intense,
  • censorious,
  • dry,
  • cutting,
  • cool,
  • abrupt,
  • spare,
  • obdurate,
  • chilly,
  • curt,
  • raw,
  • frosty,
  • caustic,
  • fundamental,
  • tart,
  • imperial,
  • stark,
  • gruff,
  • astringent,
  • sharp,
  • crisp,
  • basic,
  • icy,
  • acerbic,
  • acrimonious,
  • blunt,
  • unsmiling,
  • brisk,
  • critical,
  • short,
  • bleak,
  • acute,
  • piquant,
  • keen,
  • spartan.
  •starchy (adjective)
  • most starched,
  • re served,
  • re-served,
  • more starched.
  •stern (adjective)
  • more stiffnecked,
  • more mortified,
  • stiffnecked,
  • more stiff-necked,
  • most mortified,
  • more stiff necked,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • most stiff necked,
  • hardheaded,
  • hardshell,
  • most hardheaded,
  • stiff necked,
  • most stiff-necked.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • un-duer,
  • un duest,
  • un-due,
  • un-duest,
  • un conscionable,
  • un due,
  • un-conscionable.
  •strait-laced (adjective)
  • strait laced,
  • old maidish.
  •stringent (adjective)
  • most iron fisted,
  • more brick wall,
  • more brickwall,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • most drawing,
  • iron fisted,
  • more confining,
  • more iron fisted,
  • most confining,
  • most brick-wall,
  • more drawing,
  • most brickwall,
  • brickwall,
  • most ironfisted,
  • most brick wall,
  • more ironfisted,
  • more brick-wall.
  •strong (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • in-tensest,
  • in tenser,
  • in tense,
  • in-tense.
  •tough (adjective)
  • un-controllable,
  • most ruffianly,
  • un manageable,
  • un-manageable,
  • hard bitten,
  • more ruffianly,
  • un controllable.
  •true (adjective)
  • truehearted,
  • no lie,
  • on up and up,
  • liege.
  •unbending (adjective)
  • sticking one guns,
  • hold ones ground,
  • sticking guns,
  • do die,
  • standing one ground,
  • more unflexible,
  • standing ground,
  • in elastic,
  • un-flexible,
  • sticking to ones guns,
  • hold line,
  • un-bending,
  • most unflexible,
  • in compliant,
  • sticking ones guns,
  • standing one's ground,
  • sticking one's guns,
  • un flexible,
  • un bending,
  • sticking to one guns,
  • sticking to guns,
  • hold fort,
  • hold one ground,
  • in-compliant,
  • in-elastic,
  • standing ones ground,
  • set stone.
  •uncompromising (adjective)
  • un compromising,
  • un-compromising.
  •uptight (adjective)
  • on the defensive,
  • oldfashioned.
  •veracious (adjective)
  • on the line,
  • undeceptive,
  • straight arrow,
  • on line,
  • straightarrow,
  • straight-arrow.
  •vigilant (adjective)
  • thorough,
  • provident,
  • heedful,
  • thoughtful,
  • prepared,
  • mindful,
  • diligent,
  • observant,
  • careful,
  • guarded,
  • prudent,
  • watchful,
  • ready,
  • regardful,
  • cautious,
  • fussy,
  • sharp-eyed,
  • vigilant,
  • finical,
  • responsible,
  • alert,
  • fastidious,
  • attentive.

• n.

  •
  • theoretical,
  • nonconformist,
  • deterministic,
  • conceptual,
  • orthodox,
  • utopian,
  • popular,
  • abstract,
  • metaphysical,
  • central.
  •
  • specific,
  • full,
  • faithful.
  •
  • usual.
  •hard-and-fast (noun)
  • hard-and-fast.
  •intolerant (noun)
  • intolerant.
  •invariable (noun)
  • invariable.
  •nonindulgent (noun)
  • nonindulgent.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unerring,
  • direct,
  • faultless,
  • perfect,
  • word-perfect,
  • smack,
  • autocratic,
  • hardline,
  • narrow,
  • rigor,
  • right on,
  • letter-perfect,
  • rightly,
  • aright,
  • tough love,
  • reliable,
  • pinpoint,
  • faithfully.
  •
  • precisely,
  • extreme,
  • truly,
  • plumb,
  • righteous,
  • nicely,
  • strictly,
  • rough,
  • directly,
  • exactly,
  • precision,
  • strident,
  • solid.
  •
  • conventional.
  •
  • unyielding,
  • dead,
  • clean.
  •
  • iron.
  •binding
  • tying.
  •exact
  • fine.
  •gentile
  • christian.
  •Other relevant words:
  • unshaken,
  • clear-cut,
  • stiffen,
  • decisive,
  • pietistic,
  • secrete,
  • scathing,
  • settlement,
  • adamant,
  • limited,
  • hidden,
  • compact,
  • plenipotentiary,
  • confining,
  • old fashioned,
  • fundamentalist,
  • seriously,
  • arbitrary,
  • allowing no laxity,
  • orderly,
  • term,
  • fixedly,
  • right-minded,
  • aristocratic,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • canonical,
  • straightforward,
  • poisonous,
  • imperious,
  • Precisian,
  • firmly,
  • absolutely,
  • domineering,
  • soberly,
  • rigour,
  • purist,
  • confine,
  • sound,
  • straitened,
  • complicated,
  • consideration,
  • hypercritical,
  • authentic,
  • unequivocal,
  • explanation,
  • rationale,
  • severely,
  • verifiable,
  • perfectionist,
  • stubborn,
  • discriminative,
  • profoundly,
  • firmness,
  • implacable,
  • literatim,
  • incontestable,
  • suppress,
  • lease,
  • constricting,
  • narrowly,
  • official,
  • nominal,
  • masterful,
  • infallible,
  • savage,
  • queasy,
  • flinty,
  • punitive,
  • stringently,
  • acid,
  • defined,
  • prescribed,
  • lurk,
  • unambiguous,
  • feudal,
  • stingy,
  • renunciative,
  • lordly,
  • carefully,
  • properly,
  • quibbling,
  • Scrutinizing,
  • intractable,
  • deeply,
  • victorian,
  • brutish,
  • malicious,
  • accuracy,
  • unswerving,
  • nasty,
  • virulent,
  • searching,
  • grievous,
  • respectable,
  • merciless,
  • nearly,
  • terrible,
  • conceal,
  • heavy-handed,
  • really,
  • malignant,
  • incontrovertible,
  • unremitting,
  • old-maidish,
  • complex,
  • monocratic,
  • high-minded,
  • formulaic,
  • tightly,
  • ramrod,
  • cautiously,
  • absolute,
  • earnestly,
  • hair-splitting,
  • so,
  • Sterner,
  • determined,
  • hurtful,
  • grave,
  • interpretation,
  • peremptory,
  • dispassionate,
  • drastic,
  • close quarters,
  • habitual,
  • routine,
  • truthful,
  • reticent,
  • grinding,
  • correctly,
  • unvaried,
  • dogmatic,
  • despotic,
  • settled,
  • arranged,
  • authoritative,
  • regular,
  • dense,
  • evangelical,
  • curious,
  • Stony-hearted,
  • unquestionable,
  • grimness,
  • bigoted,
  • subtle,
  • blue,
  • exactness,
  • choosy,
  • legalistic,
  • indurate,
  • unconditional,
  • honourable,
  • Lickerish,
  • Puristic,
  • keenness,
  • unalterable,
  • stricture,
  • word for word,
  • Hard-headed,
  • entirely,
  • self-abnegating,
  • rigidly,
  • haughty,
  • acrimony,
  • mean,
  • overcritical,
  • circumstantial,
  • disciplinal,
  • decent,
  • painstaking,
  • refined,
  • immutable,
  • fixed,
  • goody-goody,
  • resolved,
  • abruptly,
  • biting,
  • rigidity,
  • mingy,
  • estate for life,
  • completely,
  • entre nous,
  • sharpness,
  • prearranged,
  • ascetical,
  • small,
  • ironclad,
  • slur,
  • restrain,
  • possibility,
  • rigidness,
  • between ourselves,
  • unavoidable,
  • bare,
  • Precisianist,
  • definition,
  • meaning,
  • callous,
  • corrective,
  • scheduled,
  • Squeasy,
  • sternness,
  • dainty,
  • unshakable,
  • brutal,
  • contain,
  • choicy,
  • overbearing,
  • explication,
  • absolutistic,
  • obloquy,
  • dangerous,
  • suppressive,
  • litigious,
  • cold,
  • unflinching,
  • inexorable,
  • coercive,
  • tenacious,
  • pettifogging,
  • accurately,
  • moralistic,
  • rising,
  • monkish,
  • stint,
  • cast-iron,
  • priggish,
  • moral,
  • well-defined,
  • asperity,
  • securely,
  • ineluctable,
  • reputable,
  • ram,
  • prim,
  • Exacter,
  • constant,
  • soundly,
  • express,
  • unchangeable,
  • pitiless,
  • over-nice,
  • systematic,
  • jesuitical,
  • dogged,
  • standard,
  • officious,
  • study,
  • just so,
  • repressive,
  • controlled,
  • positively,
  • austerity,
  • closed,
  • plain,
  • anal,
  • perceptive,
  • constrictive,
  • unsentimental,
  • querulous,
  • unforgiving,
  • unvarnished,
  • squeamish,
  • spiteful,
  • sensitive,
  • servile,
  • particularly,
  • unqualified,
  • minutely,
  • finicky,
  • unwavering,
  • venomous,
  • magisterial,
  • thin-skinned,
  • canonic,
  • reversion,
  • fair,
  • parsimonious,
  • difficult,
  • slight,
  • adamantine,
  • unfeeling,
  • taxing,
  • ruthless,
  • Incommunicable,
  • inalienable,
  • selective,
  • insensitive,
  • correctness,
  • neat,
  • microscopic,
  • sardonic,
  • acuteness,
  • confidentially,
  • similar,
  • verbatim,
  • well,
  • intricate,
  • upright,
  • uncharitable,
  • sternly,
  • intimate,
  • unappeasable,
  • pure,
  • unmoved,
  • invalided,
  • steadfast,
  • dictatorial,
  • expectancy,
  • agreed,
  • disputatious,
  • unkind,
  • binding,
  • gentlemanlike,
  • Literalist,
  • circumscription,
  • tyrannical,
  • withering,
  • rugged,
  • abstemious,
  • limitation,
  • arrogant,
  • clean-cut,
  • inflexibility,
  • bitter,
  • inerrable,
  • inescapable,
  • remainder,
  • cruel,
  • flawless,
  • reflection,
  • cold-blooded,
  • strictness,
  • disapproving,
  • Couvert,
  • thick-skinned,
  • rigorously,
  • Magistral,
  • gravely,
  • wonted,
  • unsympathetic,
  • viscous,
  • diplomat,
  • Cavilling,
  • Starched,
  • mathematical,
  • literalistic,
  • strait,
  • purely,
  • intransigent,
  • unvarying,
  • delicate,
  • inclement,
  • indisputable,
  • puritanic,
  • incorruptible,
  • self-denying,
  • superb,
  • sarcastic,
  • cramp,
  • minute,
  • slam,
  • niggling,
  • answer,
  • trenchant,
  • discriminating,
  • totalitarian,
  • inquisitorial,
  • delegate,
  • miserly,
  • concentrated,
  • set on,
  • uncompassionate,
  • severity,
  • compulsive,
  • unrelenting,
  • heartless,
  • solution,
  • confined,
  • decided,
  • principled,
  • uniformly,
  • stately,
  • knockout,
  • suddenly,
  • conservative,
  • scientific,
  • verbatim et literatim,
  • even,
  • cruelty,
  • unshakeable,
  • solely,
  • remorseless,
  • aspersion,
  • ritual,
  • Rigorist,
  • punctual,
  • tyrannous,
  • serious,
  • narrow-minded,
  • disciplinarian,
  • unchanging,
  • Overruling,
  • positive,
  • resolute,
  • vitriolic,
  • scarcely,
  • tense,
  • Familiar,
  • Hard-shell,
  • submerge,
  • in confidence,
  • hardness,
  • stilted,
  • predetermined,
  • error-free,
  • undeniable,
  • detailed,
  • hardy,
  • closely,
  • simply,
  • exquisite,
  • ritualistic,
  • customary,
  • normal,
  • imperative,
  • contentious,
  • restrictive,
  • assiduous,
  • extortionate,
  • ceremonial,
  • thoroughly,
  • superior,
  • upstanding,
  • pushy,
  • malevolent,
  • beastly,
  • set upon,
  • inhuman,
  • immovable,
  • acidulous,
  • regularly,
  • established,
  • perfectionistic,
  • methodical,
  • solemn,
  • real,
  • pro forma,
  • stony,
  • harshness,
  • bitterness,
  • acerbity,
  • tight,
  • renunciant,
  • absolutist,
  • intent.

Paraphrases for Strict:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    rigorous, austere.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    restrictive.
  • Noun, plural
    restrictions.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    precise, stiff, thorough, meticulous, stricto, accurate, narrow, uncompromising, exact, intense, fierce, rigour, careful, restricted, close, absolute, objective, resolute, rigourous, specific, critical, bare, faithful, hard, demanding, onerous, detailed, radical, forceful, unrestricted, aggressive, tightening, toughened, aggravating, delicate, stark, conscientious, no-fault, purely, extreme, sharp, strenuous, crippling.
  • Noun, plural
    Standards, obligations, rules, Efforts, Areas.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    rigid, harsh, strong, scrupulous, stern, exacting, stringency, draconian, vigorous, drastic, firm, robust, intransigent, hardline, disciplined, inflexible, serious, high, consistent, hard-line.

Antonyms for Strict:

• adj.

  • accurate, absolute
    negligent, undetailed, imprecise, careless, inexact.
  • authoritarian
    easy, nice, indefinite, amenable, gentle, mild, yielding, tractable, inaccurate, easy-going, uncertain, kind, soft, lenient, tolerant, flexible, facile.
  • Other antonyms:
    unsound, spoiling, incorrect, affable, corrupted, accepting, untrue, sweet, agreeable, untruthful, neglectful, genial, merciful, slovenly, compliant, pliable, remiss, willing, corrupt, wrong, tender, patient, acquiescent, false, complaisant, slipshod, variable, off, bland, kindly, invalid, erroneous, softhearted, responsive, inauthentic, sloppy, compromising, forbearing, unfaithful, pliant.