## Meanings
1. Demanding that rules are obeyed and not allowing bad behavior.
2. Exact and clearly defined, with no room for change.
3. Understood in an exact, narrow sense.

## Examples
- Our teacher was very strict and punished anyone who misbehaved.
- The factory follows strict safety rules at all times.
- In the strict sense of the word, a tomato is a fruit.

## Derived Forms
- non-strict
- overstrict
- semistrict
- stricten
- strictish
- strictly
- strictness
- superstrict
- ultrastrict
- unstrict

## Related Forms
- strain
- stricture
- stringent

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *streyg-
- Root: strictus

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (“to draw tight, bind, contract”). Doublet of strait and stretto. See stringent, strain. Related to strong.

## AI Etymology
Strict is borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (“to draw tight, bind, contract”). Doublet of strait and stretto. See stringent, strain. Related to strong. In present-day use, it can mean demanding that rules are obeyed and not allowing bad behavior, or exact and clearly defined, with no room for change. Derived formations include non-strict, overstrict, semistrict, stricten, strictish.

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