undisciplinary
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + disciplinary.
Adjective
[edit]undisciplinary (not comparable)
- Not enforcing discipline.
- 1948, Psychiatry, Volume 11, Guilford Press, page 162:
- When the combination of disciplinary mother and undisciplinary father occurs, the criteria are scored as they actually are, that is, the father is scored as undisciplinary (0).
- Not belonging to, or not obeying the rules of, a discipline.
- 1911, American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal, Volume 40, page 341:
- Perhaps above assertions are too radical, but when we reflect and find that the veterinarian received but a limited amount of pharmaceutical and chemical education and that in a very undisciplinary manner to the time of appointment of a national commission of examiners by the Board of Agriculture.
- 1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, SAGE Publications Limited, →ISBN, page 9:
- Undisciplinary theory must be wary of McLuhan's indisciplinarity.