disciplinary
UK/ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi//ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/
disciplinary adjective: having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
Adjective
disciplinary (comparative more disciplinary, superlative most disciplinary)
- Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
- Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.
- For the purpose of imposing punishment.
- The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.
- Of or relating to an academic field of study.
- We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60
Noun
disciplinary (plural disciplinaries)
- A disciplinary action.
- A disciplinary report.
- During my 3 weeks upstairs they wrote 4 disciplinaries on me: one for yankng my handcuffs away from an officer who was hurting me by twisting them, one for throwing a roll of toilet paper in the hall, and two verbal "assaults".1988 February 21, Jery Ragland, “A Hell Of An Appeal”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 31, page 5
disciplinary meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
disciplinary in Hindi
- disciplinary
- विषयक viṣyak
disciplinary in Bengali
- শাস্তিমূলক, নিয়মানুবর্তিতামুলক, নিয়মানুবতী, শাস্তিদায়ক
disciplinary in Telugu
- క్రమశిక్షణా
disciplinary in Malayalam
- having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline
- അച്ചടക്ക accaṭakka
More languagesFewer languages
- disciplinary in Kannada
- ಶಿಸ್ತಿನ
- disciplinary in Punjabi
- ਅਨੁਸ਼ਾਸਨੀ, ਅਨੁਸ਼ਾਸਨ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ
- disciplinary in Gujarati
- અનુશાસનાત્મક
- disciplinary in Odia
- ଶୃଙ୍ଖଳାଗତ
- disciplinary in Nepali
- अनुशासनात्मक, अनुशासनिक
- disciplinary in Indonesian
- disipliner
Examples of disciplinary in a sentence
- Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
- He had been in disciplinary confinement (“the box”)—punishment reserved for serious prison offenses—for 14 months.
- Mechanisms of security do not replace disciplinary mechanisms, which would have replaced juridico-legal mechanisms.
Forms of disciplinary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more disciplinary |
| superlative | most disciplinary |
| Noun | |
| plural | disciplinaries |
Origin of disciplinary
From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”).
Words formed from disciplinary
- antidisciplinary
- bidisciplinary
- crossdisciplinary
- cross-disciplinary
- disciplinarian
- disciplinarily
- disciplinarity
- disciplinary board
- disciplinary inquiry
- disciplinary literacy
- disciplinary loaf
- interdisciplinary
- intradisciplinary
- monodisciplinary
- multidisciplinary
- nondisciplinary
- pluridisciplinary
- subdisciplinary
- transdisciplinary
- undisciplinary
- unidisciplinary
Phrases with disciplinary
Questions about disciplinary
- What does disciplinary mean?
- Disciplinary means having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
- What is disciplinary in Hindi?
- Disciplinary in Hindi is विषयक (viṣyak). See Disciplinary meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is disciplinary?
- Disciplinary can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce disciplinary?
- Disciplinary is pronounced /ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/ (UK).
Words near disciplinary in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disciplinary (page history and authors); विषयक (Hindi) (page history and authors); disciplinary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disciplinary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disciplinary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disciplinary (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disciplinary (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disciplinary (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disciplinary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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