appraisal

1. 1.

   the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

   Synonymsassessment

   Broaderclassification

   Narrowercritical appraisalevaluationassayacid testreappraisalunderevaluation
2. 2.

   a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)

   Synonymsestimateestimation

   Broadercommercial document

   Narroweroverestimate
3. 3.

   an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something

   Broaderestimate

Other forms of appraisal

plural

appraisals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appraisal

What does appraisal mean?

appraisal means "the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appraisal?

appraisal has 3 syllables: ap-prai-sal. The stress falls on "prai". In IPA it is /əˈpɹeɪzəl/.

What is another word for appraisal?

Close synonyms include assessment, estimate, estimation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appraisal a common word?

appraisal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appraisal?

1 word rhymes with appraisal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.