scientific

English

Alternative forms

• scientifick (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sek-?

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.

Latin sciō

Latin sciēns

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin scientia

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *θakos

Proto-Italic *-fakos

Latin -ficus

Medieval Latin scientificusder.

Middle French scientifiquebor.

English scientific

Borrowed from Middle French scientifique, from Medieval Latin scientificus (“pertaining to science”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪf.ɪk/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ(.ə)n.ʈɨ.fɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪfɪk

Adjective

scientific (comparative more scientific, superlative most scientific)

2. Related or connected to science:
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 9:

     There is also in these matters of Science (though many scientific men would doubtless deny this) a great deal of "Fashion".

   • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:

     In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.

   2. Derived from or consistent with the scientific method.
   4. In accord with the procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science.
      • 2025 July 17, Aaron Reich, quoting Uri Geller, “Uri Geller: Israel used secret group of military psychics, AI to attack Iran”, in The Jerusalem Post‎^[2], Jpost Inc., archived from the original on 17 July 2025:

        “The circumstances in Iran were so mysterious and so bizarre that the Iranian government realized that this cannot happen with mechanical means or cyberattacks. They cannot happen with anything known to the human mind from a scientific point of view,” he explained.

Synonyms

• (having to do with science): See also Thesaurus:scientific
• (consistent with the scientific method):
• (in accord with procedures): methodical, systematic; see also Thesaurus:methodical

Derived terms

• antiscientific
• anti-scientific
• ascientific
• bioscientific
• counterscientific
• culturo-scientific
• cyberscientific
• e-scientific
• ethnoscientific
• extrascientific
• geoscientific
• international scientific vocabulary
• interscientific
• metascientific
• nanoscientific
• neuroscientific
• nonscientific
• non-scientific
• parascientific
• postscientific
• prescientific
• protoscientific
• pseudoscientific
• psychoscientific
• quasi-scientific
• quasiscientific
• religioscientific
• scientifical
• scientifically
• scientific article
• scientific calculator
• scientific classification
• scientific communism
• scientific computing
• scientific creationism
• scientific frontier
• scientific materialism
• scientific medicine
• scientific method
• scientific methodology
• scientific model
• scientific modeling
• scientific name
• scientificness
• scientific notation
• scientific paper
• scientific problem
• scientific racism
• scientific racist
• scientific research
• scientific romance
• scientific socialism
• scientific socialist
• scientific taxonomy
• scientifiction
• scientify
• scientize
• semiscientific
• socioscientific
• subscientific
• superscientific
• technoscientific
• telescientific
• ultrascientific
• unscientific

Related terms

• science
• scientificity
• scientist

Translations

of or having to do with science

• Albanian: shkencor (sq)
• Arabic: عِلْمِيّ (ʕilmiyy)
• Armenian: գիտական (hy) (gitakan)
• Asturian: científicu
• Avar: гӏелмийаб (ʻelmijab)
• Azerbaijani: elmi
• Basque: zientifiko
• Belarusian: навуко́вы (navukóvy)
• Bengali: বৈজ্ঞানিক (bn) (bōiggênik)
• Bulgarian: нау́чен (bg) (naúčen)
• Catalan: científic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科學的 / 科学的 (zh) (kēxué de)

• Crimean Tatar: ilmiy
• Czech: vědecký (cs)
• Danish: videnskabelig
• Dutch: wetenschappelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: scienca, ^{(please verify)} sciencista
• Estonian: teaduslik
• Finnish: tieteellinen (fi)
• French: scientifique (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: wittenskiplik

• Galician: científico (gl)
• Georgian: სამეცნიერო (samecniero), მეცნიერული (mecnieruli)
• German: wissenschaftlich (de)
• Greek: επιστημονικός (el) (epistimonikós)
• Haitian Creole: syantifik
• Hebrew: מַדָּעִי (mada'í)
• Hindi: वैज्ञानिक (hi) (vaijñānik), इल्मी (ilmī)
• Hungarian: tudományos (hu)
• Ido: ciencala (io)
• Indonesian: ilmiah (id)
• Italian: scientifico (it)
• Japanese: 科学的 (ja) (かがくてき, kagakuteki)
• Kazakh: ғылымдық (ğylymdyq), ғылыми (kk) (ğylymi)
• Korean: 과학적(科學的) (ko) (gwahakjeok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ilmî (ku), zanistî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: илимий (ky) (ilimiy)
• Ladino: sientifiko
• Lao: ວິທະຍາສາດ (lo) (wi tha nyā sāt)
• Latvian: zinātnisks
• Lithuanian: mokslinis
• Low German:

  German Low German: wetenschaplik

• Luxembourgish: wëssenschaftlech
• Macedonian: научен (naučen)
• Malay: saintifik (ms)
• Maltese: xjentifiku
• Manx: oaylleeagh, skeeandagh
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шинжлэх ухааны (mn) (šinžlex uxaany)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vitenskapelig (no)

• Pashto: علمي (ps) ('elmí)
• Persian:

  Dari: عِلْمِی (ilmī)

  Iranian Persian: عِلْمی (elmi)

• Polish: naukowy (pl)
• Portuguese: científico (pt)
• Romanian: științific (ro)
• Russian: нау́чный (ru) (naúčnyj)
• Scots: scienteefic
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́учан, зна̀нствен

  Latin: náučan (sh), znànstven (sh)

• Sicilian: scintìficu
• Slovak: vedecký
• Slovene: znánstven (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wědomnostny

• Spanish: científico (es)
• Swedish: vetenskaplig (sv)
• Tagalog: siyentipiko
• Tajik: илмӣ (tg) (ilmi)
• Thai: วิทยาศาสตร์ (th) (wít-tá-yaa-sàat)
• Turkish: bilimsel (tr)
• Turkmen: ylmy
• Ukrainian: науко́вий (naukóvyj)
• Urdu: عِلْمی (ur) ('ilmī), سائِنْسی (sāinsī)
• Uyghur: ئىلمىي (ilmiy)
• Uzbek: ilmiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: khoa học (vi)
• Volapük: nolavik (vo)
• Yiddish: וויסנשאַפֿטלעך (visnshaftlekh)

See also

• academic

Interlingua

Adjective

scientific (not comparable)

1. scientific

Related terms

• scientia
• scientista

Ladin

Adjective

scientific m pl

1. plural of scientifich

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjentiˈfik/

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Adjective

scientific m (feminine singular scientifica, masculine plural scientifics, feminine plural scientificas)

1. scientific, scientifical

Derived terms

• scientificament

Noun

scientific m (plural scientifics, feminine scientifica, feminine plural scientificas)

1. scientist

Related terms

• sciéncia f

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[3], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 898
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[4], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 590

Romanian

Adjective

scientific m or n (feminine singular scientifică, masculine plural scientifici, feminine/neuter plural scientifice)

1. obsolete form of științific

Declension

Declension of scientific

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	scientific		scientifică	scientifici	scientifice
	definite	scientificul		scientifica	scientificii	scientificele
genitive- dative	indefinite	scientific		scientifice	scientifici	scientifice
	definite	scientificului		scientificei	scientificilor	scientificelor

References

• scientific in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN