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Draconian
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draconian
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh |
| Synonyms: | brutal, cruel, drastic, exorbitant, extreme, heavy-handed, oppressive, rough, severe, strict, very severe |
| Main Entry: | strict |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | austere, dead set, disciplinary, dour, draconian*, exacting, firm, forbidding, grim, hard, hard-boiled, harsh, iron-fisted, no-nonsense, oppressive, picky, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, set, severe, square, stern, stickling, straight, strait-laced, stringent, stuffy, tough, unpermissive, unsparing, uptight* |
| Notes: | stringent often means simply 'strict, strictly regulated' and also 'tight or constricted' and emphasizes the narrowness of what is permitted, while strict emphasizes the sternness with which something is enforced |
| Antonyms: | amenable, easy-going, flexible, lenient, tolerant, tractable, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stringent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rigid, tight |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, binding, brick-wall, by the book, by the numbers, compelling, confining, convincing, dead set on, demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool, exacting, forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, iron-fisted, ironclad, picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict, tough, unpermissive, valid |
| Notes: | stringent often means simply 'strict, strictly regulated' and also 'tight or constricted' and emphasizes the narrowness of what is permitted, while strict emphasizes the sternness with which something is enforced |
| Antonyms: | flexible, inexact, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | strong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extreme |
| Synonyms: | acute, draconian, drastic, forceful, intense, keen, severe, sharp, strict |
| Antonyms: | mild, moderate |
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