analytical

Adjective

• of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
  • `all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Antonyms: 
  synthetic , synthetical