analytic
adjective
uk/ˌæn.əlˈɪt.ɪk/us/ˌæn.əˈlɪt̬.ɪk/analyticadjective(DETAILED)
mainlyUS
examiningorlikingtoexaminethings indetail, inordertodiscovermore about them:
New analytictechniquesinbiologyareallowingscientiststostudythecellin moredetail.
The analyticmethodswedevelopedfor thisprojectwill beusefulforourfuturework.
Synonym
analytical
- Theuniversityisknownforitsanalyticapproachto thesubject.
- She wasregardedas ahighlyanalyticexpertin thefieldofmarketing.
- Theapproachtheteamtook was analytic, but otherapproachesarepossible.
Analysing and evaluating
- adjudication
- analysable
- analyse
- analyser
- enquiry
- gauge
- go through
- have the measure ofsomeone/somethingidiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretable
- probe
- reinterpretation
- reinvestigate
- reinvestigation
- research
- risk assessment
- scratch
- the acid test
- vet
analyticadjective(LOGIC)
formal
relatingto or usinglogic(= aformalscientificmethodofexaminingorthinkingaboutideas):
Thisbookis one of themasterpiecesof analyticphilosophy.
formal
(of astatement)trueonly because of themeaningsof the words, without referring tofactsorexperience:
Analytictruthis onlyregardedastruebecause it isindependentofexperience.
All oftheirclaimsrely onempiricaldataand so are notpurelyanalytic.
- Thisstatementis analytic, because it is notjudgedbyreferencetofactsin therealworld.
- Theseargumentsrely on adistinctionbetween analytic andsyntheticstatements.
Logic and reason
- a fortiori
- a posteriori
- a priori
- antinomy
- cerebrally
- incoherently
- inductive
- inductively
- intellectual
- intellectualism
- non-theoretical
- non-verbal
- nonscientific
- paradox
- paradoxical
- teleology
- theoretical
- theoretically
- theory
- thinking
analyticadjective(LANGUAGE)
languagespecialized
(of alanguage)showinggrammarthrough wordorderratherthan bychangingtheformof words:
In analyticlanguagessuch asMandarin, therelationshipsbetween words areshownsolelybytheirorder.
Englishis more analytic thanSpanish.
Compare
agglutinative
synthetic
- Speakers of analyticlanguagesmayfinditdifficulttoprocesscomplexwords in ahighlysyntheticlanguagesuch asFinnish.
- Thislanguagehas twotypesofverbs:syntheticand analytic.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- bimorphemic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- multisyllabic
- suffix
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable