analyze
Verb
Verb Forms: analyzed, analyzing, analyzes
- To examine something methodically and in detail.
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"
- "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"
- "analyze your real motives"
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- "analyze a specimen"
- "analyze a sentence"
- "analyze a chemical compound"
- break down into components or essential features
- "analyze today's financial market"
- subject to psychoanalytic treatment
- "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
- To subject to analysis.
- To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
- To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
- To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
Examples
- analyze a problem
- It’s wise to analyze all possible moves before placing your tiles.
Origin / Etymology
Probably a back-formation from analysis, or from Middle French analyser, from analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).
Synonyms
analyse, break down, canvas, canvass, dissect, examine, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze, study, take apart
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
analyze: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordanalyze: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
analyze: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary