discipline

discipline is a 10-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
2. noun. Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
3. noun. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
4. noun. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
5. noun. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
6. noun. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
7. noun. The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
8. noun. Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
9. noun. A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
10. transitive verb. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
11. transitive verb. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
12. transitive verb. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
13. transitive verb. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
14. noun. training to improve strength or self-control
15. noun. the act of punishing

    "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"

    Synonyms: correction

16. noun. the trait of being well behaved

    "he insisted on discipline among the troops"

17. noun. a system of rules of conduct or method of practice

    "he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine"

    "for such a plan to work requires discipline"

18. noun. a branch of knowledge

    "in what discipline is his doctorate?"

    "teachers should be well trained in their subject"

    Synonyms: bailiwick, field, study, subject

19. verb. punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience

    "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"

    Synonyms: correct

20. verb. develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control

    "Parents must discipline their children"

    "Is this dog trained?"

    Synonyms: check, condition, train

Synonyms

correction, bailiwick, field, study, subject, correct, check, condition, train

Common word forms

disciplined, discipliner, disciplines, disciplining

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