sciencey

comparative more sciencey · superlative most sciencey · alternative science-y · alternative sciency

1. informalScientific; of or pertaining to science.

   She puts it down to her being artistic and Melody being more sciencey.'

   2015, Gareth P. Jones, No True Echo, →ISBN

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   True, most of us concede that quasi-experimental empirical research, today symbolized by multiple-regression equations, is in some sense the most "sciencey" part of political science.

   1998, Thomas Bender, Carl E. Schorske, American Academic Culture in Transformation, →ISBN

   AIDS was too sciencey for me. My eighth-grade term paper was on censorship, Tipper Gore's assault on free speech in the music industry, and the Dead Kennedys.

   2001, Kirk Read, How I Learned to Snap: A Small-town Coming-out and Coming-of-age Story

   But with the statement above, I honestly can't recall a situation where it wasn't true although I have no sciencey data to back this up.

   2014, Jeff Patton, Peter Economy, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, →ISBN

   This project will follow the scientific method, which, as far as I can tell, is just sort of looking at things in a sciencey way.

   2014, Alison Hughes, On a Scale from Idiot to Complete Jerk, →ISBN

   Antonyms: scienceless, unscienced

2. informalApparently, but not necessarily, scientific; having the trappings of science.

   Near-synonyms: sciencelike; scientistic; pseudoscientific

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   Here was the hidden gender curriculum in full flow - with very clear gendered values and expectations being imparted to the children who walked in: boys are loud and active and like 'sciencey' things such as building and constructing; girls, on the other hand, are quiet and passive, preferring to do 'caring' things and look pretty.

   2010, Kat Banyard, The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today, page 60

   It sounds sciencey, it looks sciencey, and it can fool a lot of people into thinking it's scientific but there are clear reasons why it is not.

   2013, Daniel Loxton, Donald R. Prothero, Abominable Science!

   Fear not, I have formulated (a sciencey word) this easy to understand list of signs that you may be a scientist:

   2014, David Tieck, Ok, Intriguing: Hell Yeah! Awesomenessous, →ISBN

   All those pencils in your pocket. You look sciencey.

   2017, David M. Barnett, Calling Major Tom, →ISBN

   Synonyms: sciencelike, scientistic, pseudoscientific