Discipline

Noun

 * 1) A controlled behaviour; self-control
 * 2) An enforced compliance or control
 * 3) A systematic method of obtaining obedience
 * 4) A state of order based on submission to authority
 * 5) A punishment to train or maintain control
 * 6) A set of rules regulating behaviour
 * 7) A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification
 * 8) A specific branch of knowledge or learning
 * 9) A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs, or a sub-category of said activity.

Verb

 * 1)  To train someone by instruction and practice.
 * 2)  To teach someone to obey authority.
 * 3)  To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
 * 4)  To impose order on someone.

Adjectives for Discipline
mental; hard;   strict;  unsympathizing; monastic; religious; stern; patient; firm; virtuous; gentle; effective; military; grim; iron; inflexible; rigorous; compulsory; irksome; inexorable; cellular; unfeeling; imaginative; infracted; systematic; painful; affectionate;  heroic;  moral; speculative; conventual; unrelenting; secret; peculiar; spasmodic; needful; unflagging; questioned; sound; absolute; perfect; modern; prudent; monastic; iron.

Verbs for Discipline
abate—; chafe under—; dread—; enforce—; fuse with—; impose—; maintain—; neglect—; preserve—; relax—; subject to—; wreck—; —deteriorates; —exacts; — falters; —loosens; —wavers; —weakens.

Adverbs for Discipline
conscientiously; admirably; ardently; faithfully; patiently; strictly; morally; physically; rigorously; daily; harshly; severely; mentally; unsympathizingly; monastically; religiously; virtuously; gently; effectively; grimly; inflexibly; irksomely; inexorably; unfeelingly; conventionally; unflaggingly; soundly; prudently.

Synonyms for Discipline

 * field, sphere
 * penalty, sanction, punishment, chastisement
 * drill, order, method, government, regulation, rule, training, instruction, organization.

Antonyms for Discipline
confusion, chaos, disorder, rebellion, mutiny, disturbance, misrule, irregularity, derangement, misgovernment.

Derived terms

 * academic discipline

Related terms

 * disciple
 * disciplinal
 * disciplinarian
 * disciplinary
 * discipliner
 * interdisciplinary
 * multidisciplinary
 * disciplined
 * disciplinable

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