strictest

ADJECTIVE

authoritarian

Synonyms

STRONGEST

draconian exacting harsh rigid rigorous scrupulous severe stern stringent tough

WEAK

austere dead set disciplinary dour firm forbidding grim hard hard-boiled iron-fisted no-nonsense oppressive picky prudish punctilious puritanical set square stickling straight strait-laced stuffy unpermissive unsparing uptight

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy easy-going facile flexible gentle kind lenient mild nice soft tolerant

WEAK

amenable inaccurate indefinite tractable uncertain yielding

ADJECTIVE

accurate, absolute

Synonyms

STRONGEST

exact meticulous precise religious scrupulous

WEAK

close complete faithful just particular perfect right total true undistorted utter veracious veridical

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless imprecise inaccurate inexact negligent undetailed

WEAK

amenable easy-going flexible indefinite lenient tolerant tractable uncertain yielding

Example Sentences

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In her social media profiles, she proclaims herself “Britain’s Strictest Headmistress.”

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024

“The guilty will not be spared at any cost. Strictest action will be taken against them,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

The Emmy for non-scripted entertainment went to “The World’s Strictest Parents,” which takes unruly British teenagers and sends them abroad to spend 10 days living with a strict host family.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2011

The other British nominees were "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne" for arts programming and "The World's Strictest Parents" for non-scripted entertainment.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2011

For my part Sir, I am pleased with the whole Piece, and think the Critics, in particular, must approve of it highly; As it is written up to the Strictest Nicety of Dramatic Rules.

From The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir by Macklin, Charles