UNSCIENTIFIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unscientific mean? 

• UNSCIENTIFIC (adjective)
  The adjective UNSCIENTIFIC has 1 sense:

1. not consistent with the methods or principles of science

  Familiarity information: UNSCIENTIFIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSCIENTIFIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not consistent with the methods or principles of science

Context example:

an unscientific lack of objectivity

Similar:

pseudoscientific (based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific)

Attribute:

scientific knowledge (knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles)

Antonym:

scientific (conforming with the principles or methods used in science)

 Context examples 

You have nothing to stand on, you unscientific dogmatists with your positive science which you are always lugging about into places it has no right to be.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Such unscientific balderdash, added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, would have estranged Damon and Pythias.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Because I question Jefferson and the unscientific Frenchmen who informed his mind, does not make me a socialist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)