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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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A trustee actually has the strictest transparency requirement for the beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026

This would require the strictest inspections, which again raises the leverage question.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Despite the country already having some of the strictest sunscreen regulations in the world, the TGA said the time was right for an overhaul.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

California, with its roughly 40 million residents, has some of the strictest waste laws in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

We buried it in the strictest privacy, so as not to set people talking.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende