enforcing rules severely; not allowing exceptions

• demanding obedience or high standards

exact and precise; rigorously accurate

• showing meticulous attention to detail

narrowly or rigidly interpreted; limited in scope

• in the strict sense; literal

tight or taut; drawn close

• tense; not relaxed

upright, straight and narrow in habit or inflorescence

excluding equality; irreflexive, as in a strict order

• used for relations like < or > without equality