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undisciplinary

undisciplinary adjective: not enforcing discipline.

Adjective

undisciplinary (not comparable)

  1. Not enforcing discipline.
    • When the combination of disciplinary mother and undisciplinary father occurs, the criteria are scored as they actually are, that is, the father is scored as undisciplinary (0).1948, Psychiatry, Volume 11, Guilford Press, page 162
  2. Not belonging to, or not obeying the rules of, a discipline.
    • Perhaps above assertions are too radical, but when we reflect and find that the veterinarian received but a limited amount of pharmaceutical and chemical education and that in a very undisciplinary manner to the time of appointment of a national commission of examiners by the Board of Agriculture.1911, American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal, Volume 40, page 341
    • Undisciplinary theory must be wary of McLuhan's indisciplinarity.1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, SAGE Publications Limited, →ISBN, page 9

Origin of undisciplinary

From un- + disciplinary.

Questions about undisciplinary

What does undisciplinary mean?
Undisciplinary means not enforcing discipline.
What part of speech is undisciplinary?
Undisciplinary is an adjective.

Words near undisciplinary in the dictionary

  1. undischargeable
  2. undischarged
  3. undiscipled
  4. undisciplinable
  5. undisciplinarity
  6. undisciplinary
  7. undiscipline
  8. undisciplined
  9. undisciplinedly
  10. undisciplinedness
  11. undisclaimed

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