English Explanatory Dictionary

scientific

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Related or connected to science
  2. Related or connected to science:
  3. Derived from or consistent with the scientific method.
  4. In accord with the procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science.

Pronunciation

/ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪf.ɪk/ en-ca-scientific.ogg en-us-scientific.ogg /ˈsaɪ(.ə)n.ʈɨ.fɪk/

Word forms

scientific more scientific most scientific scientifick

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der. Latin sciō Latin sciēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin scientia Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *θakos Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Medieval Latin scientificusder. Middle French scientifiquebor. English scientific Borrowed from Middle French scientifique, from Medieval Latin scientificus (“pertaining to science”).

Synonyms

systematic scientific sciential ultrascientific methodical

Related words

science scientificity scientist academic analytic forensic managerial medical scientician statistical technical

Derived words

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 quasi-scientific quasiscientific religioscientific scientifical scientifically scientific article scientific calculator scientific classification scientific communism scientific computing scientific creationism scientific frontier scientific materialism scientific medicine 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
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