From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scientific \Sci'en*tif"ic\, adjective [F. scientifique; L. scientia science + facere to make.]
1. Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.
2. Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.
3. Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences. --Landor.
{Scientific method}, the method employed in exact science and consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observation and experiment. (b) generalization of the results into formulated ''Laws'' and statements.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scientific
adjective
1: of or relating to the practice of science; "scientific journals"
2: conforming with the principles or methods used in science; "a scientific approach" [ant: {unscientific}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "scientific": close, constant, delicate, detailed, direct, disciplinary, down-to-earth, earthy, even, exact, express, faithful, fine, hardheaded, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, mathematical, matter-of-fact, methodical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, nice, orderly, painstaking, pinpoint, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, precise, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, refined, religious, religiously exact, rigid, rigorous, sane, scholarly, scientifically exact, scientistic, secular, sensible, severe, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, square, straight-thinking, strict, subtle, systematic, technical, technicological, technological, thorough, undeviating, unerring, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, well-ordered, well-regulated, worldly
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