Relating to, of the nature of, or operating by analysis: opposed to synthetic, synthetical: as, an analytic mode of thought.In the Kantian logic, explicatory; involving a mere analysis or explication of knowledge, and not any material addition to it.In philology, deficient in inflections, and employing instead particles and auxiliary words to express modifications of meaning and to show the relations of words in a sentence: as, an analytic language.n. (only in the first form).n. One of the main divisions of logic, which treats of the criteria for distinguishing good and bad arguments.n. Analysis in the mathematical sense.