subscientific

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ scientific

Adjective

subscientific (comparative more subscientific, superlative most subscientific)

1. Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.
   • 1978, Michael Patrick O'Connor, Hebrew Verse Structure, volume 1, page 65:

     Schemes of the strict accentual type explicitly rejected by Lowth are advocated without substantial modification at present; proposals are still subscientific, i.e., without replicable results and unsupported by a scholarly consensus.

   • 1994, Jens Høyrup, In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture, page 32:

     Though basically subscientific in character, Babylonian mathematics demonstrates to what extent subscientific mathematics could mimic "scientific" mathematics […]