EGAVE

strictly

About 15.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adverb In a strict manner.
    He adhered strictly to the diet his doctor prescribed.
  2. adverb In a limited manner; only.
  3. adverb In a narrow or limited sense.
    That term refers strictly to smaller birds.
  4. adverb In a manner that applies to every member of a set or every interval of a function.

Similar words

stringently rigorously purely stringent stringency rigour hard rigidly rigid tough

Often followed by

speaking to limited a in forbidden on enforced true observed

Word family

strict stricter strictest strictness strictnesses

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