■ adjective
1》 another term for ~al .
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'.