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DISCIPLINARY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does disciplinary mean?

• DISCIPLINARY (adjective)
The adjective DISCIPLINARY has 3 senses:

1. relating to discipline in behavior
2. relating to a specific field of academic study
3. designed to promote discipline

Familiarity information: DISCIPLINARY used as an adjective is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• DISCIPLINARY (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Relating to discipline in behavior

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

disciplinary problems in the classroom

Pertainym:

discipline (the trait of being well behaved)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Relating to a specific field of academic study

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

economics in its modern disciplinary sense

Pertainym:

discipline (a branch of knowledge)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

Designed to promote discipline

Synonyms:

corrective; disciplinal; disciplinary

Context examples:

the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional / disciplinal measures / the mother was stern and disciplinary

Similar:

nonindulgent; strict (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)

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