Stricture

Quick meaning: Stricture is a noun meaning (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.

Meaning

(usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.

More Meanings

1. A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
2. A sternly critical remark or review.
3. (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
4. (linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.
5. (obsolete) Strictness.
6. (obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch.

Example Sentences

a man of stricture and firm abstinence

I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.

Even venerable print publications seem to accept that old strictures no longer apply when they move online.

Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation.

Word Forms

• strictures

Synonyms for stricture

Depending on context, synonyms include constraint, restriction, restraint, repression, suppression, animadversion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stenosis, narrowing, constriction, contraction, shrinkage, downturn.

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