analytical

adjective

Able to reason validly: analytic, logical, ratiocinative, rational. See reason/unreason.

IN BRIEF: Having to do with careful examination; good at examining things.

Dr. Freud had an analytical mind.

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
  Synonym: analytic

Meaning #2: (logic) of a proposition; necessarily true independent of fact or experience, as"all spinsters are unmarried"
  Synonym: analytic

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - analytisk

Nederlands (Dutch)
volgens analytische methode, analytisch (taalkunde)

Français (French)
adj. - analytique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - analytisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αναλυτικός, διεξοδικός

Italiano (Italian)
analitico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - analítico

Русский (Russian)
аналитический

Español (Spanish)
adj. - analítico

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - analytisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
解析的, 分析的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 解析的, 分析的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 분석(분해)적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 分解の, 分析的思考にたけた

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) فابل للتحليل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נתחני, ניתוחי, ביקורתי, אנליטי, משתמשת במלים נפרדות לציון הטיות דקדוקיות (שפה)‬

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