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

Students attending graduate school will also face the strictest loan limits in decades.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

She had to spend a lot of time at her home, in Beijing, which had some of the strictest lockdowns in China, if not the world.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

“Bigger, I’m your lawyer. I want to talk to you honestly. What you say is in strictest confidence. ...”

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright