adj.
- another term for analytical.
- Logic true by virtue of the meaning of the words or concepts used to express it, so that its denial would be a self-contradiction. Compare with synthetic.
- Linguistics (of a language) tending to use word order to express grammatical structure. Contrasted with synthetic.
Etymology
C17: via L. from Gk analutikos, from analuein ‘unloose’.
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