disciplinal

1. 1.

   designed to promote discipline

   “the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional”

   “disciplinal measures”

   “the mother was stern and disciplinary”

   Synonymscorrectivedisciplinary

   Similarnonindulgent

Questions about disciplinal

What does disciplinal mean?

disciplinal means "designed to promote discipline".

How many syllables are in disciplinal?

disciplinal has 4 syllables: di-sci-pli-nal. The stress falls on "sci".

What is another word for disciplinal?

Close synonyms include corrective, disciplinary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disciplinal a common word?

disciplinal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.