strictly speaking

English

Adverb

strictly speaking (comparative more strictly speaking, superlative most strictly speaking)

1. Saying something as precisely as possible; using a strict sense of a word.

   Antonym: roughly speaking

   Near-synonyms: technically, stricto sensu

   This recipe calls for three kinds of fruit: strawberries, cherries, and rhubarb. Well, strictly speaking, rhubarb is a vegetable.

   Consensus means "a view or opinion that is generally shared," so expressions such as consensus of opinion are, strictly speaking, tautologies.

Translations

technically — see also stricto sensu

• Czech: přísně vzato
• Esperanto: striktasence
• Finnish: tarkkaan ottaen, teknisesti
• French: à proprement parler (fr)
• German: streng genommen (de)
• Italian: a rigor di termini
• Latin: dumtaxat
• Polish: ściśle mówiąc (pl)
• Russian: стро́го говоря́ (strógo govorjá), со́бственно говоря́ (ru) (sóbstvenno govorjá)
• Ukrainian: стро́го ка́жучи (stróho kážučy), вла́сне ка́жучи (vlásne kážučy)

See also

• autohyponym
• subsense

Further reading

• “strictly speaking”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.