scientific

scientific
adj.
VERBS
be, seem, sound
ADVERB
highly

It all looks highly scientific!

truly
purely

Her curiosity was purely scientific.

not very

His approach was not very scientific.

Scientific is used with these nouns: ↑accomplishment, ↑accuracy, ↑achievement, ↑activity, ↑advance, ↑advancement, ↑adviser, ↑apparatus, ↑approach, ↑article, ↑aspect, ↑assessment, ↑background, ↑base, ↑basis, ↑bent, ↑breakthrough, ↑circle, ↑colleague, ↑community, ↑concept, ↑consensus, ↑controversy, ↑creativity, ↑credentials, ↑credibility, ↑criticism, ↑culture, ↑curiosity, ↑data, ↑debate, ↑development, ↑discipline, ↑discovery, ↑endeavour, ↑enquiry, ↑enterprise, ↑equipment, ↑establishment, ↑evidence, ↑examination, ↑excellence, ↑expedition, ↑experiment, ↑expert, ↑expertise, ↑explanation, ↑exploration, ↑fact, ↑finding, ↑formula, ↑foundation, ↑genius, ↑hypothesis, ↑idea, ↑illiteracy, ↑innovation, ↑institute, ↑instrument, ↑integrity, ↑interest, ↑investigation, ↑jargon, ↑journal, ↑justification, ↑know-how, ↑knowledge, ↑literature, ↑logic, ↑measurement, ↑medicine, ↑meeting, ↑merit, ↑method, ↑misconduct, ↑model, ↑mystery, ↑name, ↑observation, ↑orthodoxy, ↑paper, ↑point of view, ↑precision, ↑principle, ↑procedure, ↑progress, ↑proof, ↑publication, ↑publishing, ↑puzzle, ↑reasoning, ↑report, ↑reputation, ↑research, ↑researcher, ↑respectability, ↑revolution, ↑rigour, ↑scrutiny, ↑socialism, ↑society, ↑study, ↑talent, ↑technique, ↑temperament, ↑term, ↑terminology, ↑text, ↑theory, ↑thinker, ↑thinking, ↑thought, ↑topic, ↑training, ↑truth, ↑uncertainty, ↑understanding, ↑validity, ↑verification, ↑viewpoint, ↑vocabulary, ↑work, ↑writing

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