Subscientific
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From sub- + scientific.
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