Antonyms for analysis


Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-nal-uh-sis
Phonetic Transcription : əˈnæl ə sɪs


Definition of analysis

Origin :
  • 1580s, "resolution of anything complex into simple elements" (opposite of synthesis), from Medieval Latin analysis (15c.), from Greek analysis "a breaking up, a loosening, releasing," noun of action from analyein "unloose, release, set free; to loose a ship from its moorings," in Aristotle, "to analyze," from ana "up, throughout" (see ana-) + lysis "a loosening," from lyein "to unfasten" (see lose). Psychological sense is from 1890. Phrase in the final (or last) analysis (1844), translates French en dernière analyse.
  • noun examination and determination
  • noun statement of results from examination
Example sentences :
  • Analysis searched every wound of humanity, in order to expose its horror.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
  • He punched the private wire to Analysis for the fourth time that morning.
  • Extract from : « PRoblem » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • In a corner office they found the Analysis man, pale but jubilant.
  • Extract from : « PRoblem » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • Analysis, first of all, and egotism, and therefore no faith.
  • Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 » by Various
  • Analysis and record, for future use, of lessons learned by experience.
  • Extract from : « Civics and Health » by William H. Allen
  • Let him try, and if he fail, then let him study my Analysis as given below.
  • Extract from : « Assimilative Memory » by Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
  • Expository writing is commonly divided into Definition and Analysis.
  • Extract from : « Expository Writing » by Mervin James Curl
  • Analysis of samples of pure and broken colors in cloths and flowers.
  • Extract from : « Elementary Color » by Milton Bradley
  • Analysis showed that the powders were an acetanilid mixture.
  • Extract from : « The Great American Fraud » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • Analysis—the resolution of a complex whole into its component elements.
  • Extract from : « A Logic Of Facts » by George Jacob Holyoake

Synonyms for analysis

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