Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures:
— Stringent safety measures.

synonyms: rigorous, tight.

Roget 926: obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent etc. (severe) 739; behooving etc. v.; incumbent on, chargeable on; under obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with.    due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to; tied down; compromised etc. (promised) 768; in duty bound.    amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable.    right, meet etc. (due) 924; moral, ethical, casuistical, conscientious, ethological.    ... show more

Roget 171: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.    rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted^†, double-distilled; drastic, escharotic^†; racy etc. (pungent) 392.    potent etc. (powerful) 157; radioactive.    ... show more

Roget 737: at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential; arbitrary; compulsory etc. 744; stringent.    at one's command; in one's power, in one's grasp; under control.    ... show more

Roget 739: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant^†, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell [U.S.], relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive etc. 744; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement etc. (ruthless) 914.1; cruel etc. (malevolent) 907; haughty, arrogant etc. 885; precisian^†.    ... show more

Roget 744: compelling etc. v.; coercive, coactive^†; inexorable etc. 739; compulsory, compulsatory^†; obligatory, stringent, peremptory.    forcible, not to be trifled with; irresistible etc. 601; compelled etc. v.; fain to.    ... show more

Polish: rygorystyczny, ścisły