adjective
scientific
Relating to science or systematic investigation based on evidence.
The team gathers scientific evidence to explain the lake's decline.
Etymology
The Latin adjective concerns producing knowledge. Modern scientific specializes that knowledge-making to systematic investigation using evidence and disciplined methods.
More examples
- She publishes her findings in a scientific journal.
- Students use the scientific method to test their predictions.
- There is no scientific basis for that health claim.
Forms
scientific
science noun — Systematic study using observation and evidence.
scientifically adverb — In a way based on science.
Similar words
- empirical
- Emphasizes observation or experiment rather than science in general.
- systematic
- Emphasizes an organized method, which need not involve science.