scientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪfɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more scientific
form: most scientific
form: scientifick
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French scientifique, from Medieval Latin scientificus (“pertaining to science”).
Senses: examples: text: There is also in these matters of Science (though many scientific men would doubtless deny this) a great deal of "Fashion".
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 9:
text: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref: 2012 January 24, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2012, page 87:
glosses: Related or connected to science
glosses: Related or connected to science:
Derived from or consistent with the scientific method.
examples: text: “The circumstances in Iran were so mysterious and so bizarre that the Iranian government realized that this cannot happen with mechanical means or cyberattacks. They cannot happen with anything known to the human mind from a scientific point of view,” he explained.
ref: 2025 July 17, Aaron Reich, quoting Uri Geller, “Uri Geller: Israel used secret group of military psychics, AI to attack Iran”, in The Jerusalem Post, Jpost Inc., archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025:
glosses: Related or connected to science:
In accord with the procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science.
Synonyms: sense: in accord with procedures
word: methodical
word: systematic
word: methodical
word: scientific
word: sciential
word: ultrascientific
Hyponyms: word: agronomic
word: anthropologic
word: anthropological
word: architectural
word: astronomic
word: astronomical
word: chemical
word: e-scientific
word: economic
word: educational
word: geographic
word: geographical
word: informatical
word: linguistic
word: mathematical
word: mechanical
word: morphological
word: oceanographic
word: philosophical
word: physical
word: psychological
word: scientistic
word: sociological
Derived terms: antiscientific
anti-scientific
ascientific
bioscientific
counterscientific
culturo-scientific
cyberscientific
e-scientific
ethnoscientific
extrascientific
geoscientific
international scientific vocabulary
interscientific
metascientific
nanoscientific
neuroscientific
nonscientific
non-scientific
parascientific
postscientific
prescientific
protoscientific
pseudoscientific
psychoscientific
quasiscientific
quasi-scientific
religioscientific
scientifical
scientifically
scientific calculator
scientific classification
scientific communism
scientific computing
scientific creationism
scientific frontier
scientific materialism
scientific method
scientific methodology
scientific model
scientific modeling
scientific name
scientificness
scientific notation
scientific paper
scientific problem
scientific racism
scientific racist
scientific research
scientific romance
scientific socialism
scientific socialist
scientific taxonomy
scientifiction
scientify
scientize
semiscientific
socioscientific
subscientific
superscientific
technoscientific
telescientific
ultrascientific
unscientific
Related terms: word: science
word: scientificity
word: scientist
word: academic
word: analytic
word: forensic
word: managerial
word: medical
word: scientician
word: statistical
word: technical