Entry Word: strictly

Function: adverb

Meaning: without any relaxation of standards or precision <strictly speaking, Columbus did not discover America—the people living there had long known about it> <the rules must be strictly obeyed>

Synonyms exactly, precisely, rigidly, rigorously

Related Words carefully, conscientiously, meticulously, scrupulously

Antonyms imprecisely, inexactly, loosely