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indiscipline

indiscipline noun: lack of discipline.

Noun

indiscipline (usually uncountable, plural indisciplines)

  1. (usually) Lack of discipline.
    • [O]ur delay, and other things which happened, were proofs—and I was told not uncommon ones—of that carelessness, unreadiness, and general indiscipline of French arrangements, which has helped to bring about, since then, an utter ruin.1871, Charles Kingsley, “Homeward Bound”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 313
    • Germany feared that the fiscal indiscipline of countries like Italy and Greece could make the new euro currency unstable.2002 February 7, Steven Erlanger, “German unemployment is growing problem for [Gerhard] Schröder”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

indiscipline meaning in Tamil and Assamese

indiscipline in Tamil

ஒழுங்கின்மை, கட்டுப்பாடின்மை

indiscipline in Assamese

indiscipline
আউল aul

Forms of indiscipline

pluralindisciplines

Origin of indiscipline

From French indiscipline, from Middle French [Term?], from Late Latin indisciplina.

Questions about indiscipline

What does indiscipline mean?
Indiscipline means lack of discipline.
What is indiscipline in Tamil?
Indiscipline in Tamil is ஒழுங்கின்மை, கட்டுப்பாடின்மை. See Indiscipline meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is indiscipline?
Indiscipline is a noun.
What is the plural of indiscipline?
The plural of indiscipline is indisciplines.

Words near indiscipline in the dictionary

  1. indiscerptible
  2. indiscerptibly
  3. indisciplinable
  4. indisciplinarity
  5. indisciplinary
  6. indiscipline
  7. indisciplined
  8. indisciplines
  9. indiscoverable
  10. indiscoverably
  11. indiscovery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indiscipline (page history and authors); indiscipline (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আউল (Assamese) (page history and authors). 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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