Definition of Pseudoscientific

1. Adjective. Based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific.

Similar to: Unscientific

Definition of Pseudoscientific

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though perhaps made to seem partially scientific. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pseudoscientific

pseudoritualistic
pseudoromantic
pseudorotation
pseudorotations
pseudorotaxane
pseudorotaxanes
pseudorubella
pseudorutile
pseudorutiles
pseudos
pseudoscalar
pseudoscalars
pseudoscholarship
pseudoscience
pseudosciences
pseudoscientific (current term)
pseudoscientifically
pseudoscientist
pseudoscientists
pseudosclerosis
pseudoscope
pseudoscopes
pseudoscopic
pseudoscorpion
pseudoscorpions
pseudoseizure
pseudoseizures
pseudosibling
pseudosiblings
pseudosinhalite

Literary usage of Pseudoscientific

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"Luigi accepted many invitations to speak at black southern colleges, taking these opportunities to actively oppose the pseudoscientific theories that were ..."

2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... possibly because it would have been a difficult task to versify smoothly the strange, half-Latin terms of their pseudoscientific galimatias. ..."

3. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"The other sensational element in Bulwer's work is a pseudoscientific use of the supernatural, of which Zanoni (1845) furnishes the most elaborate example. ..."

4. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"The other sensational element in Bulwer's work is a pseudoscientific use of the supernatural, of which Zanoni (1845) furnishes the most elaborate example. ..."

5. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"... NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN. possibilities of selection, notably by the ' popular' and pseudoscientific descriptions of the thorough work of Mr. Burbank. ..."

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