stringent

Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe.

Adjective

  1. Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe.
    • They have stringent quality requirements outlining what is acceptable.

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin stringēns, stringentem, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”).

Forms

more stringent most stringent

Antonyms

lenient

Derived

nonstringent overstringent stringently stringentness understringent unstringent