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Exact Match:

rigorous

demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures"

rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

Synonyms:

• Herculean,
• Siberian,
• abstruse,
• accurate,
• acid,
• acidulous,
• acrid,
• acrimonious,
• acute,
• adamant,
• adamantine,
• adverse,
• algid,
• antagonistic,
• arctic,
• arduous,
• ascetic,
• astringent,
• attentive,
• below zero,
• biting,
• bitter,
• bitterly cold,
• bleak,
• boreal,
• brisk,
• brumal,
• brutal,
• burdensome,
• cast-iron,
• caustic,
• close,
• cold,
• cold as charity,
• cold as death,
• cold as ice,
• cold as marble,
• complex,
• conflicting,
• conscientious,
• constant,
• contrary,
• correct,
• counter,
• counteractive,
• crisp,
• critical,
• cutting,
• delicate,
• demanding,
• detailed,
• detrimental,
• difficile,
• difficult,
• direct,
• double-edged,
• dour,
• draconian,
• drastic,
• edged,
• escharotic,
• even,
• exact,
• exacting,
• excessive,
• exigent,
• exorbitant,
• express,
• exquisite,
• extravagant,
• extreme,
• faithful,
• fierce,
• fine,
• finical,
• finicking,
• finicky,
• firm,
• flinty,
• formidable,
• freezing,
• freezing cold,
• frigid,
• fundamentalist,
• furious,
• fussy,
• gelid,
• glacial,
• great,
• grim,
• hairy,
• hard,
• hard-core,
• hard-earned,
• hard-fought,
• harmful,
• harsh,
• hibernal,
• hidebound,
• hiemal,
• hostile,
• hyperborean,
• ice-cold,
• ice-encrusted,
• icelike,
• icy,
• immoderate,
• immovable,
• immutable,
• implacable,
• impliable,
• in opposition,
• incisive,
• inclement,
• inelastic,
• inerrable,
• inerrant,
• inexorable,
• infallible,
• inflexible,
• inimical,
• intemperate,
• intense,
• intransigent,
• intricate,
• iron,
• ironbound,
• ironclad,
• ironhanded,
• irreconcilable,
• jawbreaking,
• keen,
• knotted,
• knotty,
• laborious,
• mathematical,
• mean,
• meticulous,
• micrometrically precise,
• microscopic,
• minute,
• miserable,
• mordacious,
• mordant,
• muscle-bound,
• narrow,
• nice,
• nipping,
• nippy,
• no picnic,
• not easy,
• numbing,
• obdurate,
• obstinate,
• onerous,
• operose,
• opposed,
• opposing,
• opposite,
• oppressive,
• orthodox,
• outrageous,
• particular,
• penetrating,
• piercing,
• pinching,
• pinpoint,
• poignant,
• precise,
• precisianistic,
• precisionistic,
• procrustean,
• proper,
• punctilious,
• punctual,
• purist,
• puristic,
• puritan,
• puritanic,
• raw,
• refined,
• relentless,
• religious,
• religiously exact,
• right,
• rigid,
• rigorist,
• rigoristic,
• rock-ribbed,
• rockbound,
• rough,
• rugged,
• scathing,
• scientific,
• scientifically exact,
• scrupulous,
• scrutinizing,
• set with thorns,
• severe,
• sharp,
• sinister,
• sleety,
• slushy,
• snappy,
• spiny,
• splitting,
• square,
• stabbing,
• steely,
• steep,
• stern,
• stiff,
• stinging,
• stone-cold,
• straightlaced,
• straitlaced,
• strenuous,
• stressful,
• strict,
• strident,
• stringent,
• stubborn,
• subtle,
• subzero,
• supercooled,
• tart,
• thorny,
• ticklish,
• toilsome,
• tough,
• trenchant,
• tricky,
• troublesome,
• troublous,
• trying,
• unaffected,
• unalterable,
• unbending,
• unchangeable,
• uncompromising,
• unconscionable,
• undeviating,
• unerring,
• unfavorable,
• ungiving,
• unmoved,
• unrelenting,
• untoward,
• unyielding,
• uphill,
• vehement,
• venomous,
• violent,
• virulent,
• vitriolic,
• wicked,
• winterbound,
• winterlike,
• wintery,
• wintry,
• wretched