Undisciplined
[ʌn'dɪsɪplɪnd] or [,ʌn'dɪsəplɪnd]
Definition
(adj.) lacking in discipline or control; 'undisciplined behavior'; 'ungoverned youth' .
(adj.) not subjected to discipline; 'undisciplined talent' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Untrained, unpractised, undrilled, unschooled, uninitiated, inexperienced, raw.
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Definition
adj. not disciplined not properly trained and exercised.—adj. Undis′ciplinable.
Typist: Osborn
Examples
- Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The first sound of martial instruments that came upon our undisciplined foe, inspired surprise, not unmingled with dread. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mrs. Casaubon was still undisciplined enough to burst into angry tears. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They follow their own chaotic and undisciplined course. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As I look out on the night, my tears fall fast, and my undisciplined heart is chastened heavily--heavily. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Undisciplined heart, reply! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As a body they lived lives of conspicuous virtue and purity in a violent, undisciplined, and vicious age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The chief strength of the Lydians lay in their cavalry; they were excellent, if undisciplined, horsemen, and fought with long spears. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The undisciplined mind is averse to suspense and intellectual hesitation; it is prone to assertion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Osborn