HOW TO PRONOUNCE
analytic
/ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/
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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
- Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.
- Of, or relating to division into elements or principles.
- Having the ability to analyse.
More meanings (5)
adjective
- that follows necessarily by definition; tautologous.
- Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
- Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
- Being able to be locally represented by convergent power series around every point of the domain.
- 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/
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Before the time of Kant, it was generally held that whatever knowledge was a priori must be 'analytic'.
There, revealed, was the defect of a life, a problem to be worked out by the analytic student of mankind.
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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.
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.