unscientific
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk/
- It seems to be just a ridiculous sort of unscientific thing to even think, right?
- an unscientific view
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Watch on YouTubeIf that sounds unscientific, it's because it is.
- If that sounds unscientific, it's because it is.
- And it sounds so like fluffy and unscientific.
- And to still teach it is unscientific, but it's also perpetuating a belief.
- Is that or is that, is that true or is that just like my unscientific sample?
- If you do, you are unscientific, you are ungodly, you are demonic, whatever.
- And sadly, these people are now, you know, trying to implement this whacked out, unscientific, deranged policy to a general public.
- And, and I have no doubt in my mind, and that is an unscientific response as well, but I have no doubt in my mind that the universe is steaming with life.
- If we do that's, that's in a certain way being unscientific, or if you don't like the word scientific, less rigorous than we ought to be.
- And we're really engaging in what Hegel would be willing to call unscientific science.
- So, yeah, I don't hurling sort of insulting names like unscientific.
- And my feeling is that there's so much, there's so much downside to the unscientific bits.
- Fantasy, folly, bunk science, epicycles, a mirage, unscientific, and on and on it goes.
Examples
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The biased virus hunters used an unscientific approach.
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Against all the evidence, Michael, I'd say you had a very unscientific mind.
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If that sounds unscientific, it's because it is.
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The doctor must, therefore, move towards the patient's own unscientific view.
Academic text (1999) -
I tell you, it's unscientific not to admit the possibility of anything.
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Any curriculum decision that fails to acknowledge this must be considered unscientific.
Academic text (2007) -
This conclusion is unscientific, and the man leading that charge is named Graham Hancock.
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In East Java, the Kyai dismissed feminist thinking as emotional and unscientific.
Academic text (2007) -
We have come a long way since Marx sneered at the utopian socialists for being unscientific.
Academic text (1993) -
The researchers criticized the study for using unscientific methods that lacked proper controls.
Synonyms
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9.3
Ideas or methods that look like real science but have no proof
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4.6
Not based on science or scientific evidence
Antonyms
How Scientific
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3.7
85
6.7
137
7.2
162
3.9
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5.1
59
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
unscientific = scientific (transparent) = un + scientific
The negative prefix 'un-' directly negates the adjective 'scientific', yielding the expected meaning 'not scientific' for an average learner.
Etymology
Unscientific is built from un- ('not') and science ('knowledge from careful study'). So, unscientific describes ideas or methods that are 'not based on careful tests or evidence'.