assessment

1. 1.

   the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

   Synonymsappraisal

   Broaderclassification

   Narrowercritical appraisalevaluationassayacid testreappraisalunderevaluation
2. 2.

   an amount determined as payable

   “the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership”

   Broadercharge
3. 3.

   the market value set on assets

   Broadermonetary value

   Narrowertax assessment
4. 4.

   the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

   “they criticized my judgment of the contestants”

   Synonymsjudgmentjudgement

   Broaderact

   Narrowerjusticeadjudicationdisapprovalevaluationestimatelogistic assessmentvalue judgment

Other forms of assessment

plural

assessments·

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 assessment

What does assessment mean?

assessment means "the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assessment?

assessment has 3 syllables: as-ses-sment. The stress falls on "ses". In IPA it is /əˈsɛsmənt/.

What is another word for assessment?

Close synonyms include appraisal, judgment, judgement. 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 assessment a common word?

assessment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 assessment?

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