Meaning

• Strained; drawn close; tight.

  "strict embrace"

• Tense; not relaxed.

  "strict fiber"

• Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.

  "to keep strict watch"

• Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.

  "very strict in observing the Sabbath"

• Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.

  "to understand words in a strict sense"

• Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

• Severe in discipline.

  "It was a very strict lesson."

• Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.