disciplinary

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. relating to discipline in behavior

- disciplinary problems in the classroom

2. relating to a specific field of academic study

- economics in its modern disciplinary sense

3. designed to promote discipline

- disciplinal measures

- the mother was stern and disciplinary

Similar word(s): nonindulgent, strict, corrective, disciplinal

Sentences with disciplinary as an adjective:

- Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.

- The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.

- We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.

noun

1. A disciplinary action.