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

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strictest

Social Security has one of the strictest measures of disability.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Amid the information vacuum, speculation is mounting as to how the aircraft managed to penetrate a city which has some of the world's strictest airspace controls.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

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 men have the strictest orders. But 1 must say, sir, that those orders would be easier to follow had the Yankees shown charity when they were back in Virginia.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara