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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

The strictest method short of rationing was probably the even-odd buying system adopted in California and other states around the spring of 1974.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

But, along with a higher age limit of 16, it is the first jurisdiction to deny an exemption for parental approval in a policy like this - making its laws the world's strictest.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

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