noun
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Meanings
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noun
a person who enforces strict rules and expects obedience, often through punishment
The head coach was a strict disciplinarian who never tolerated lateness.
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Opposites
permissive leader
Word family
Derived forms
disciplinarianism
Etymology
Formed in English from discipline with the person-forming suffix -arian. Discipline ultimately comes through Old French from Latin disciplina ("instruction, training"), from discipulus ("pupil").