disciplinary
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.