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Analytical   /ˌænəlˈɪtɪkəl/   Listen
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Analytical, Analytic  adj.  Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; opposed to synthetic.



analytical  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to analysis (definition 2).
2.
(Logic) Of a proposition; necessarily true independent of fact or experience, such as "all spinsters are unmarried". Opposite of synthetic. Also See: a priori, deductive, logical.
3.
Exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations; as, analytic reasoning; an analytical discussion.
Synonyms: appraising(prenominal), evaluative.
4.
Capable of or given to analyzing; of people. "An analytical mind"
Analytical geometry or coordinate geometry. See under Geometry.
Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings.
Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.






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"Analytical" Quotes from Famous Books



... be considered the leader of the idealistic school in the nineteenth century. It is now fifteen years since his death, and the judgment of posterity is that he had a great imagination, linked to great analytical power and insight; that his style is neat, pure, and fine, and at the same time brilliant and concise. He unites suppleness with force, he combines grace ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... you complained of a letter of mine, calling it cold and analytical. That I should be cold and analytical despite all the prodding and pressing and moulding I have received at your hands, and the hands of Waring, marks only more clearly our temperamental difference; but it does not mark that one ...
— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London

... or as he was familiarly called, "Chip" Bingham, was the youngest operative in Mr. Pinkerton's service. His talents, in the detective line, ranged considerably higher than did the general run of his associates. Possessing an analytical mind, he could take the effect, and, by logical conclusions, retrace its path to the fundamental cause, and following this principle, he had made many valuable discoveries in mystery-shrouded cases, and had, many times, picked the end of a clew from a seemingly hopeless snarl, ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... necessary in order to explain to some extent the conception of the erotic conflict in analytical psychology. It is the turning-point of the ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... is the character of the heroine, Natalya, the quiet, sober, matter-of-fact girl, who at the bottom is an enthusiastic and heroic nature. She is but a child fresh to all impressions of life, and as yet undeveloped. To have used the searching, analytical method in painting her would have spoiled this beautiful creation. Turgenev describes her synthetically by a few masterly lines, which show us, however, the secrets of her spirit; revealing what she is and also what she might have become ...
— Rudin • Ivan Turgenev


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