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Disconcerting vs Disciplinary - What's the difference?

disconcerting | disciplinary |

As adjectives the difference between disconcerting and disciplinary

is that disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting while disciplinary is having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

As a noun disciplinary is

a disciplinary action.

disconcerting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
  • Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
  • "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting ."

    disciplinary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
  • Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.
  • For the purpose of imposing punishment.
  • The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.
  • Of or relating to an academic field of study.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Stephen Ledoux , title=Behaviorism at 100 , volume=100, issue=1, page=60 , magazine= citation , passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
    We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.

    Noun

    (disciplinaries)
  • A disciplinary action.