Discipline

Quick meaning: Discipline is a noun meaning A controlled behaviour; self-control.

Meaning

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

More Meanings

1. A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
2. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
3. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
4. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
5. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

Example Sentences

academic disciplines

Near-synonyms: specialty, speciality, specialism

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.

The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

Word Forms

• disciplines
• disciplining
• disciplined

Synonyms for discipline

Depending on context, synonyms include drill, field, sphere, specialty, speciality, specialism.

Antonyms for discipline

Common opposites include spontaneity, indiscipline, undiscipline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subject, correction, study, condition, correct, train.

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