evaluative

1. 1.

   exercising or involving careful evaluations

   “looked him over with an appraising eye”

   “the literary judge uses many evaluative terms”

   Synonymsappraising

   Similarcritical

Questions about evaluative

What does evaluative mean?

evaluative means "exercising or involving careful evaluations".

How many syllables are in evaluative?

evaluative has 5 syllables: e-va-lu-a-tive. The stress falls on "lu".

What is another word for evaluative?

Close synonyms include appraising. 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 evaluative a common word?

evaluative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.