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subscientific

subscientific adjective: less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.

Adjective

subscientific (comparative more subscientific, superlative most subscientific)

  1. Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.
    • Schemes of the strict accentual type explicitly rejected by Lowth are advocated without substantial modification at present; proposals are still subscientific, i.e., without replicable results and unsupported by a scholarly consensus.1978, Michael Patrick O'Connor, Hebrew Verse Structure, volume 1, page 65
    • Though basically subscientific in character, Babylonian mathematics demonstrates to what extent subscientific mathematics could mimic "scientific" mathematics[…]1994, Jens Høyrup, In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture, page 32

Forms of subscientific

comparativemore subscientific
superlativemost subscientific

Origin of subscientific

From sub- + scientific.

Questions about subscientific

What does subscientific mean?
Subscientific means less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.
What part of speech is subscientific?
Subscientific is an adjective.

Words near subscientific in the dictionary

  1. subschizophrenic
  2. subschool
  3. subschools
  4. subscience
  5. subsciences
  6. subscientific
  7. subscleral
  8. subsclerotic
  9. subscope
  10. subscopes
  11. subscore

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