Word Meanings - STRICTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Quality or state of being strict.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRICTNESS)
- Accuracy
- Exactness
- correctness
- strictness
- precision
- exactitude
- nicety
- fidelity
- Discipline
- Order
- training
- government
- instruction
- drilling
- control
- coercion
- punishment
- organization
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STRICTNESS)
Related words: (words related to STRICTNESS)
- MISMANAGER
One who manages ill. - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - NICETY
1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act, - ORGANIZATION
1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also, - TRAINING
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training - DISCIPLINER
One who disciplines. - TRAINABLE
Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - STRICTNESS
Quality or state of being strict. - MISCONDUCT
Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense. - DRILL PRESS
A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. - ORDERLY
1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good - ABANDON
To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; - CORRECTNESS
The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety. - GOVERNMENTAL
Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. - MISMANAGEMENT
Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement. - COERCION
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, - ACCURACY
The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. - CONTROL
contr-rôle; contre + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; - TRAINER
1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - PROTUBERATE
To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak. - MISGOVERNMENT
Bad government; want of government. Shak. - UPTRAIN
To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser. - CORRIDOR TRAIN
A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.