strictures

Meaning of strictures

noun
  1. (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
    For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
  2. A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology
    I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
  3. A sternly critical remark or review
  4. Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
  5. Strictness
  6. A stroke; a glance; a touch
  7. The degree of contact, in consonants

Information about strictures

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of strictures is: stricture.
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Hyphenation of strictures

stric-tures

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • strictures is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with strictures

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