| 单词 | strict |
| 释义 | strict (once / 130 pages) adj Strict describes someone who sticks to a particular set of rules. If your math teacher is strict, it means that she expects her rules to be followed to the letter. The adjective strict always has to do with rules. Your strict parents enforced rules and expected you to obey them. Your cousin might be a strict vegetarian who always follows her own rules about what to eat. Strict laws demand to be followed, and a strict follower of the First Amendment supports free speech no matter what. The Latin root of strict is strictus, which means "drawn together, tight, or rigid." A rigid adherence to rules is exactly what makes someone strict. WORD FAMILYstrict: stricter, strictest, strictly, strictness+/strictness: strictnesses USAGE EXAMPLESHe is a genuine person who lives by a strict moral code, and he expects to be treated fairly. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The law establishes stricter timetables for state agencies and municipalities to respond to public records requests. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Environmental and health groups pushed for an even stricter standard. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard a strict vegetarian Syn rigorous exact marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact 2adj incapable of compromise or flexibility Syn rigid intolerant unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion 3adj characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint Syn|Ant nonindulgent abstemious sparing in consumption of especially food and drink austere, sternof a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect blue, puritanic, puritanicalmorally rigorous and strict corrective, disciplinal, disciplinarydesigned to promote discipline monkishbefitting a monk; inclined to self-denial renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denyingused especially of behavior self-disciplined, self-restrainingused of nonindulgent persons severe, spartanunsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment indulgent characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone gluttonousgiven to excess in consumption of especially food or drink decadent, effetemarked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay betting, card-playing, dissipated, sportingpreoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuousdisplaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses gaygiven to social pleasures often including dissipation epicurean, hedonic, hedonisticdevoted to pleasure hard, heavy, intemperategiven to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors overindulgentexcessively indulgent pamperinggratifying tastes, appetites, or desires self-indulgentindulgent of your own appetites and desires 4adj severe and unremitting in making demands strict standards Syn exacting, stern demanding requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill 5adj (of rules) stringently enforced Syn hard-and-fast invariable not liable to or capable of change |
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