sciencey
sciencey adjective: scientific; of or pertaining to science.
Adjective
sciencey (comparative more sciencey, superlative most sciencey)
- Scientific; of or pertaining to science.
- True, most of us concede that quasi-experimental empirical research, today symbolized by multiple-regression equations, is in some sense the most "sciencey" part of political science.1998, Thomas Bender, Carl E. Schorske, American Academic Culture in Transformation, →ISBN
- AIDS was too sciencey for me. My eighth-grade term paper was on censorship, Tipper Gore's assault on free speech in the music industry, and the Dead Kennedys.2001, Kirk Read, How I Learned to Snap: A Small-town Coming-out and Coming-of-age Story
- Antonyms:
- scienceless, unscienced
- Apparently, but not necessarily, scientific; having the trappings of science.
- Near-synonyms: sciencelike; scientistic; pseudoscientific
- Here was the hidden gender curriculum in full flow - with very clear gendered values and expectations being imparted to the children who walked in: boys are loud and active and like 'sciencey' things such as building and constructing; girls, on the other hand, are quiet and passive, preferring to...2010, Kat Banyard, The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today, page 60
- Synonyms:
- sciencelike, scientistic, pseudoscientific
Examples of sciencey in a sentence
- But with the statement above, I honestly can't recall a situation where it wasn't true although I have no sciencey data to back this up.2014, Jeff Patton, Peter Economy, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, →ISBN:
- This project will follow the scientific method, which, as far as I can tell, is just sort of looking at things in a sciencey way.2014, Alison Hughes, On a Scale from Idiot to Complete Jerk, →ISBN:
- She puts it down to her being artistic and Melody being more sciencey.'2015, Gareth P. Jones, No True Echo, →ISBN:
- It sounds sciencey, it looks sciencey, and it can fool a lot of people into thinking it's scientific but there are clear reasons why it is not.2013, Daniel Loxton, Donald R. Prothero, Abominable Science!:
Synonyms of sciencey
Antonyms
Forms of sciencey
| comparative | more sciencey |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sciencey |
| alternative form | science-y |
| alternative form | sciency |
Origin of sciencey
From science + -y (“characterized by; like”, suffix forming an adjective).
Questions about sciencey
- What does sciencey mean?
- Sciencey means scientific; of or pertaining to science.
- How do you use sciencey in a sentence?
- But with the statement above, I honestly can't recall a situation where it wasn't true although I have no sciencey data to back this up.
- What part of speech is sciencey?
- Sciencey is an adjective.
Words near sciencey in the dictionary
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