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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undisciplined

late 14c., "untrained," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of discipline (v.). Similar formation in German undisciplinirt, Swedish odisciplinerad. Specific meaning "not subject to military discipline" is attested from 1718.

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undisciplined

a. 1 not subjected to discipline, control or correction; uncorrected 2 lacking in self-control; ungovernable

WordNet
undisciplined
  1. adj. not subjected to discipline; "undisciplined talent"

  2. not subjected to correction or discipline; "let her children grow up uncorrected" [syn: uncorrected]

  3. lacking in discipline or control; "undisciplined behavior"; "ungoverned youth" [syn: ungoverned]

Usage examples of "undisciplined".

He could not show so much love for His creatures, by leaving them unchastened, untried, undisciplined.

Your untrained, undrilled, undisciplined Chouans are merely auxiliaries.

He shows us what it meant to put aside the inheritances and relationships of an immemorial order and to stand as a little child untaught, undisciplined and unperfect in the presence of the new.

On the other hand, if you are an undisciplined person with a tendency to wander allover the landscape, you will be better off with an outline even if you feel you wouldn like one.

Those gunners who had no riding place on the guns or limbers were running down the verges in an undisciplined retreat.

Quintus Cicero when the darkness came and the Nervii wandered off in undisciplined hordes.

How can we help it, seeing that we are undisciplined and standardless, seeing that we started without the backbone that schooling gives?

Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff.

Admiral del Falco, Commander Baldwin visible on his right, was waxing eloquent about the 'antics' of these 'unruly, undisciplined and unprincipled Talents 'I thought you kept more control on your people, Raven.

The Barbarians stood silent and amazed, till they were exasperated by the insulting clamors, and missile weapons, of the populace: but when patience or contempt was fatigued, they crushed the undisciplined multitude, inflicted many a shameful wound on the backs of their flying enemies, and despoiled them of the splendid armor, ^74 which they were unworthy to bear.

She faltered then, feeling a blush suffuse her face as if she were an undisciplined adolescent for she was not conducting his rescue in a proper way.

Milo had posed for these pictures in a drab peasant's blouse with a high collar, and his scrupulous, paternal countenance was tolerant, wise, critical and strong as he stared out at the populace omnisciently with his undisciplined mustache and disunited eyes.

They then described to him the taking of a Christian city by Turkish troops, particularly by the irregulars, the utterly undisciplined bashi-bazouks employed by Ismail: murder of course, with women raped and men and children sodomized, but also monstrous desecration of churches, graves and everything holy.

Hundreds of meters of broken, tortured rock fell in undisciplined cataracts onto the clear ice.

They wafted away on cloud nine with undisciplined mind energy, no roots and no direction, and as a result their forecasts and diagnoses were unbelievably stupid.