analytical

  • (a) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
    • an analytic experiment
    • an analytic approach
    • a keenly analytic man
    • analytical reasoning
    • an analytical mind
    analytic,
  • (a) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
    • "all spinsters are unmarried" is an analytic proposition
    analytic,

Synonyms

analytic

Antonyms

synthetical synthetic

See also

a priori deductive logical

Words of close approximity

analytical balance analytical cubism analytical geometry analytically analytical review