Meaning & Definition of Analytical in English

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"