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Analytic

adjective

Using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus.

Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles). Synonym: analytical. "An analytic approach" , "A keenly analytic man" , "Analytical reasoning" , "An analytical mind" Antonym: synthetic.

Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection. Synonym: uninflected. Antonym: synthetic.

Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience. Synonym: analytical. Antonym: synthetic.

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"Analytic" Quotes from Famous Books

... bitterness hardly to be distinguished from cynicism. In a passionate longing for a better order of things, in the merciless denunciation of the cant and bigotry which was enlisted in the cause of the existing order, he resembled Byron. The rare union in his nature of the analytic and the emotional gave to his writings the very qualities which he enumerated as characteristic of the age, and his consistent sincerity made his voice distinct above ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

... widely from the modern novel. Many of them pay but little attention to probability; but those which do not offend in this respect generally rely on a succession of stirring incidents to secure attention. Novels showing the analytic skill of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, or the development of character in George Eliot's Silas Marner would have been little read in competition with stirring tales of adventure, if such novels had appeared before a taste for them had ...

— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

... of dialogue; but Hawthorne's own attitude toward reform is clearly disclosed in the analytic passages in which he discusses Holgrave, though it is observable that he embodies no adverse criticism upon it in the character itself, as he was to do in his next novel. He appears to take the same view of reform that is sometimes found in respect to prayer, ...

— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry

... knew now that what she felt for him was no new thing. It had been with her always, not merely since the painting of her portrait, but always, unacknowledged yet implicit, ever since that first day when he had rescued her from Richard. Her intensely criticising, analytic brain refused to surrender to vague emotion. She was resolved to understand herself, to rationalise her overthrow. It was the difference, for which that half-hour of sunset was responsible, in the degree of what she felt, that bewildered ...

— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

... un-English in his appearance, with grizzled hair and the sober face of a thinker. But his mouth and jaw are those of a man of action, and the look in his gray eyes is always changing. Now it is speculative and analytic, now steely ...

— A Volunteer Poilu • Henry Sheahan

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