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English adjective: analytical

1. analytical using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)


SamplesAn analytic experiment.
An analytic approach.
A keenly analytic man.
Analytical reasoning.
An analytical mind.


Synonymsanalytic


Antonymssynthetical, synthetic

2. analytical of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience


Samples`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition.


Synonymsanalytic


See alsoa priori, deductive, logical


Domain categorylogic


Antonymssynthetical, synthetic









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