adj
Meaning 1
Not scientific
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unscientific
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adjective
Meaning 2
not consistent with the methods or principles of science
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an unscientific lack of objectivity
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: scientific
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der. Latin sciō Latin sciēns Latin -ia Latin scientia Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Medieval Latin scientificusder. Middle French scientifiquebor. English scientific English unscientific From un- + scientific.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: joshkencor — not scientific
- Bulgarian: ненау́чен (nenaúčen) — not scientific
- Chinese Mandarin: 不科學的 /不科学的 (bùkēxuéde) — not scientific
- Danish: uvidenskabelig — not scientific
- Dutch: onwetenschappelijk — not scientific
- Esperanto: nescienca — not scientific
- German: unwissenschaftlich — not scientific
- Japanese: 非科学的 (hikagakuteki) — not scientific
- Kazakh: ғылыми емес (ğylymi emes) — not scientific
- Korean: 비과학적 (bigwahakjeok) — not scientific
- Norwegian Bokmål: uvitenskapelig — not scientific
- Norwegian Nynorsk: uvitskapleg — not scientific
- Norwegian Nynorsk: uvitskapeleg — not scientific
- Polish: nienaukowy — not scientific
- Romanian: neștiințific — not scientific
- Russian: ненау́чный (nenaúčnyj) — not scientific
- Spanish: acientífico — not scientific
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