'Disciplinary' definitions:
Definition of 'disciplinary'
From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom"
adjective
Relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"
adjective
Designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]
Definition of 'Disciplinary'
From: GCIDE
- Disciplinary \Dis"ci*plin*a*ry\, a. [LL. disciplinarius flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire.] Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. [1913 Webster]
- Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. --Bp. Ferne. [1913 Webster]
- The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disciplinary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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