strictとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /stɹɪkt/
• 韻: -ɪkt

形容詞

strict (comparative stricter, superlative strictest)

1. Strained; drawn close; tight.

   strict embrace

   strict ligature

2. Tense; not relaxed.

   strict fiber

3. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.

   to keep strict watch

   to pay strict attention

4. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Hocussing of Cigarette‎^[1]:

     No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

   they are very strict in observing the Sabbath

5. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.

   to understand words in a strict sense

6. (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
7. Severe in discipline.

   Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished.

   It was a very strict lesson.

   Antonyms: lenient, lax, permissive

8. (set theory, order theory) Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.

使用する際の注意点

• Stricter and strictest are the grammatically correct forms for the comparative and superlative though outside UK more strict and most strict are more often used.

派生語

• stricten
• strictly
• strictness

関連する語

• stricture
• stringent
• strain

Further reading

• strict in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “strict”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.