analytic

Meanings

Adjective

• using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus
  • "analytic statics"
• 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"
• expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
• of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
  • "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"

Synonyms

analytical, uninflected

Antonyms

synthetic