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analytic

/ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/

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Give “lit” the main stress.

The third syllable carries the strongest beat after a smaller beat near the beginning. Keep the final ik light rather than making the suffix equally prominent.

4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3

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The job requires analytic skills.

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

What does analytic mean?

adjective

  1. Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.
  2. Of, or relating to division into elements or principles.
  3. Having the ability to analyse.
More meanings (5)

adjective

  1. that follows necessarily by definition; tautologous.
  2. Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
  3. Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
  4. Being able to be locally represented by convergent power series around every point of the domain.
  5. Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected function words within sentences to indicate meaning.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/

Pronunciation used in the listening tip.

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Before the time of Kant, it was generally held that whatever knowledge was a priori must be 'analytic'.
Bertrand RussellThe Problems of PhilosophyProject Gutenberg ebook #5827
There, revealed, was the defect of a life, a problem to be worked out by the analytic student of mankind.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994
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John Morley, the acute English critic, has made an analytic study of Emerson's style, which may reconcile the reader to some of its exasperating peculiarities.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays by Ralph Waldo EmersonProject Gutenberg ebook #16643
The connecting links of his thought have often to be supplied by an analytic reader whose mind is not up to the required tension to spring over the chasm.
Robert Browning; Hiram CorsonAn Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryProject Gutenberg ebook #260