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disciplinary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective disciplinary has 3 senses
- disciplinary(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom" Derived forms noun discipline5, noun discipline3
- disciplinary(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense" Derived form noun discipline1
- disciplinary(s = adj.all) corrective, disciplinal - designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" Derived form noun discipline4
OXFORD DICTIONARY
disciplinary, adj. of, promoting, or enforcing discipline.
Etymology
med.L disciplinarius (as DISCIPLINE)
THESAURUS
disciplinary
autodidactic, castigatory, chastening, chastising, coeducational, corrective, cultural, didactic, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, grueling, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, inflictive, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, penal, penological, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, scholarly, scientific, self-teaching, teaching, technical, technicological, technological, tuitionary
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