analytical

英[ænə'lɪtɪk(ə)l] 美[,ænə'lɪtɪkl]

1. 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"

2. of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience;

"`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"