Analytical - Definition
analytical
adj 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" [syn: analytic,
analytical] [ant: synthetic, synthetical]
2: of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact
or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic
proposition" [syn: analytic, analytical] [ant:
synthetic, synthetical]