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antidisciplinary

antidisciplinary adjective: going against the accepted wisdom of a discipline.

Adjective

antidisciplinary (comparative more antidisciplinary, superlative most antidisciplinary)

  1. Going against the accepted wisdom of a discipline.
    • The interdisciplinary is often the antidisciplinary made safe.2000, David Batchelor, Chromophobia, page 97
  2. Not fitting within a traditional discipline or outside the boundaries of traditional disciplines.

Forms of antidisciplinary

comparativemore antidisciplinary
superlativemost antidisciplinary

Origin of antidisciplinary

From anti- + disciplinary.

Questions about antidisciplinary

What does antidisciplinary mean?
Antidisciplinary means going against the accepted wisdom of a discipline.
What part of speech is antidisciplinary?
Antidisciplinary is an adjective.

Words near antidisciplinary in the dictionary

  1. antidirected
  2. antidisability
  3. antidisabled
  4. antidisciplinarian
  5. antidisciplinarians
  6. antidisciplinary
  7. antidiscipline
  8. antidisciplines
  9. antidisco
  10. antidiscount
  11. antidiscounting

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