analytic

an·a·lyt·ic

adj \ˌa-nə-ˈli-tik\

Definition of ANALYTIC

1

: of or relating to analysis or analytics; especially : separating something into component parts or constituent elements

2

: being a proposition (as “no bachelor is married”) whose truth is evident from the meaning of the words it contains — compare synthetic

3

: skilled in or using analysis especially in thinking or reasoning <a keenly analytic person>

4

: characterized by analysis rather than inflection <analytic languages>

5

: psychoanalytic

6

: treated or treatable by or using the methods of algebra and calculus

7

a of a function of a real variable : capable of being expanded in a Taylor's series in powers of x − h in some neighborhood of the point h b of a function of a complex variable : differentiable at every point in some neighborhood of a given point

— an·a·lyt·i·cal·ly \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

— an·a·ly·tic·i·ty \ˌa-nə-lə-ˈti-sə-tē\ noun

Variants of ANALYTIC

an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal \-ti-kəl\

Examples of ANALYTIC

1. <presented a very analytical argument for the defendant's guilt>

Origin of ANALYTIC

Late Latin analyticus, from Greek analytikos, from analyein

First Known Use: 1601

Related to ANALYTIC

Synonyms: logical (or analytical), coherent, consequent, good, rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-grounded

Antonyms: illegitimate, illogical, incoherent, inconsequent, inconsequential, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unsound, weak

Related Words: a posteriori, a priori, syllogistic; cognitive, empirical (also empiric); defendable, defensible, justifiable, maintainable, supportable, sustainable, tenable

Near Antonyms: casuistic (or casuistical), eristic (also eristical), fallacious, misleading, sophistic (or sophistical), specious; unarticulated; unscientific; absurd, cockeyed, crazy, daffy, fatuous, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, insane, loony (also looney), mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, simpleminded, stupid, weak-minded, witless; senseless, thoughtless; uncompelling, unconvincing

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Rhymes with ANALYTIC

ammonitic, anaclitic, anchoritic, anthracitic, catalytic, cenobitic, coprolitic, diacritic, dialytic, doleritic, dolomitic, dynamitic, eremitic, granulitic, higher critic, hypercritic, laryngitic, paralytic, parasitic, sodomitic, stalactitic, stalagmitic, sybaritic, syphilitic, thallophytic, thrombolytic, troglodytic, Ugaritic