UNDISCIPLINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undisciplined mean? 

• UNDISCIPLINED (adjective)
  The adjective UNDISCIPLINED has 3 senses:

1. not subjected to discipline

2. not subjected to correction or discipline

3. lacking in discipline or control

  Familiarity information: UNDISCIPLINED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDISCIPLINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not subjected to discipline

Context example:

undisciplined talent

Similar:

untrained (not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not subjected to correction or discipline

Synonyms:

uncorrected; undisciplined

Context example:

let her children grow up uncorrected

Similar:

unpunished (not punished)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lacking in discipline or control

Synonyms:

undisciplined; ungoverned

Context example:

ungoverned youth

Similar:

uncontrolled (not being under control; out of control)

 Context examples 

“The first mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Seeing the quick movement of our parties, the leader of the gypsies gave a command; his men instantly formed round the cart in a sort of undisciplined endeavour, each one shouldering and pushing the other in his eagerness to carry out the order.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“The first mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As I look out on the night, my tears fall fast, and my undisciplined heart is chastened heavily—heavily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I were thankful to my husband for no more, instead of for so much, I should be thankful to him for having saved me from the first mistaken impulse of my undisciplined heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

From my swoon, I first awoke to a consciousness of her compassionate tears, her words of hope and peace, her gentle face bending down as from a purer region nearer Heaven, over my undisciplined heart, and softening its pain.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Undisciplined heart, reply!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For I knew, now, that my own heart was undisciplined when it first loved Dora; and that if it had been disciplined, it never could have felt, when we were married, what it had felt in its secret experience.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As a man upon a field of battle will receive a mortal hurt, and scarcely know that he is struck, so I, when I was left alone with my undisciplined heart, had no conception of the wound with which it had to strive.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)