disciplinary meaning and definition

DISCIPLINARY adjective

Definition of 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
   • "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
   • synonyms: corrective, disciplinal