subscientific
English
Etymology
sub- + scientific
Adjective
subscientific (comparative more subscientific, superlative most subscientific)
- Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.
- 1978, Michael Patrick O'Connor, Hebrew Verse Structure (volume 1, page 65)
- 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.
- 1994, Jens Høyrup, In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture (page 32)
- Though basically subscientific in character, Babylonian mathematics demonstrates to what extent subscientific mathematics could mimic "scientific" mathematics […]
- 1978, Michael Patrick O'Connor, Hebrew Verse Structure (volume 1, page 65)