analytic

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
analytic/anəˈlɪtɪk/

▶adjective

• 1 another term for analytical.

• 2 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.

• 3 Linguistics (of a language) tending to use word order to express grammatical structure. Contrasted with synthetic.

– origin C17: via L. from Gk analutikos, from analuein ‘unloose’.