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stringent

UK/ˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/US/ˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,789 of 15,258leans written

Stringent means strict and allowing no slackness. Stringent rules, stringent testing, stringent conditions.

It belongs to rules and standards rather than to people, and it means the requirement is hard to meet rather than harshly enforced. The Latin behind it means drawing tight, and stringent shares a root with strict.

Definitions of stringent

  1. 1adjectivestringentStrict and allowing no slackness.C2

    “The factory must meet stringent safety standards before it can open.”

stringent is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin stringens means drawing tight, from stringere, to bind, the root of strict.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *streyg- — to stroke, to shear, stiff

  2. Latin

    stringens

  3. English, today

    stringent

Latin stringens, from Proto-Indo-European streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

stringent in the wild

  • In practice, the more stringent of the two should be applied.

    Yad soledet bo

  • Each new Windows version has since introduced several new, more stringent checks for testing and verifying drivers and detecting new classes of driver defects.

    Driver Verifier

  • Since 2006, the American Heart Association have been "substantially more stringent on saturated fat intake".

    Cardiac diet

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.