STRINGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stringent mean? 

• STRINGENT (adjective)
  The adjective STRINGENT has 1 sense:

1. demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

  Familiarity information: STRINGENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRINGENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

Synonyms:

rigorous; stringent; tight

Context example:

stringent safety measures

Similar:

demanding (requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill)

Derivation:

stringency (conscientious attention to rules and details)

 Context examples 

Jupiter came in to soften the sometimes stringent teachings of Saturn and Pluto on December 2, 2019, and will remain with you for a year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under rather a stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is more stringent than other mutiple testing corrections and thereby, will allow very few false positives.

(Family-Wise Error Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

Wild-type molecules are rendered inactive for amplification by binding of a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probe that hybridizes to wild-type sequence with greater affinity and under less stringent conditions.

(Peptide Nucleic Acid Clamping, NCI Thesaurus)

It is less stringent than other mutiple testing corrections and thereby, will allow a percentage of false positives.

(False Discovery Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The repository has stringent guidelines regarding the standardized collection, handling, storage and documentation of biological specimens.

(Cancer Biobank, NCI Thesaurus)

The commercialisation of these life-saving drugs, which is currently decided by a tender system in various states in India, should rather be governed by the outcomes of stringent preclinical evaluations, he suggests.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

The biorepository has stringent guidelines regarding the standardized collection, handling, storage, and documentation of biological specimens.

(Biorepository, NCI Thesaurus)

Apparently because of its less stringent binding affinity for the BCR-ABL kinase, dasatinib has been shown to overcome the resistance to imatinib of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cells harboring BCR-ABL kinase domain point mutations.

(Dasatinib, NCI Thesaurus)