Stringent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Imposing rigorous standards of performance; severe: stringent safety measures.
  • adj. Constricted; tight: operating under a stringent time limit.
  • adj. Characterized by scarcity of money, credit restrictions, or other financial strain: stringent economic policies.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tightening or binding; drawing tight.
  • Straitened; tight; constrained; hampered by scarcity or lack of available funds: as, a stringent money-market.
  • Strict; close; rigorous; rigid; exacting; urgent: as, to make stringent regulations.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
  • Equivalent
    demanding   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    restrictive    rigid    severe    strict   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rigorous    restrictive    drastic    statutory    explicit    sanitary    applicable    lax    operational    arbitrary