strict
/stɹɪkt/ adjetivo A1En español: estricto
- Strained; drawn close; tight. · strict embrace· strict ligature
- Tense; not relaxed. · strict fiber
- Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular. · to keep strict watch· to pay strict attention
- Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous. · they are 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. · Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished.· It was a very strict lesson.
- Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
Comparativo stricter · Superlativo strictest
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Oh, Anne, I know I’ve been kind of strict and harsh with you maybe--but you mustn’t think I didn’t love you as well as Matthew did, for all that.
She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one’s heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.
She had the reputation of being very strict with her children.
“A most dangerous conspirator, a man we are ordered to keep the most strict watch over, as he is daring and resolute.”
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