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Stringent: meaning, example and synonyms

Stringentadj. Strict, precise and exacting in requirements or standards.

Flashcard for Stringent (adjective): strict, precise and exacting in requirements or standards. Example: Stringent safety rules required every technician to pass a decontamination check before leaving the laboratory, even after brief visits. Synonyms: strict, rigorous, exacting, severe. Antonyms: lax, lenient, loose, permissive. Memory tip: Stringent pulls tight like a string: strict, no slack. Illustration: a fully clothed lab technician in a white coat and goggles standing in an air shower booth while a supervisor checks a clipboard with only checkmark shapes on it.

Example

Stringent safety rules required every technician to pass a decontamination check before leaving the laboratory, even after brief visits.

Part of speech
adjective
Synonyms
strict, rigorous, exacting, severe
Antonyms
lax, lenient, loose, permissive
Memory tip
Stringent pulls tight like a string: strict, no slack.

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Question 1

The journal's ______ standards require that every experiment be independently replicated before publication, which explains why it accepts fewer than one in twenty submissions.

Question 2

After contaminated water sickened hundreds, the legislature passed ______ regulations limiting what factories could discharge into the river and imposing heavy fines for violations.

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