pertaining to or proceeding by analysis ( opposed to synthetic ).

skilled in or habitually using analysis.

(of a language) characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms. Compare synthetic ( def. 3 ) , polysynthetic ( def. 1 ) .

Logic . (of a proposition) necessarily true because its denial involves a contradiction, as All husbands are married.

Mathematics .

(of a function of a complex variable) having a first derivative at all points of a given domain; holomorphic; regular.

(of a curve) having parametric equations that represent analytic functions.

(of a proof) using analysis.

adjective

analytical , ratiocinative , rational