ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Subscientific

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Subscientific is an adjective meaning Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.

Meaning

Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.

Example Sentences

Though basically subscientific in character, Babylonian mathematics demonstrates to what extent subscientific mathematics could mimic "scientific" mathematics[…]
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonscientific, unscientific, non-scientific, unscientifical, subuniversal, subcriminal.

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