Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
evaporative is an adjective meaning "relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation". It carries one recorded sense.
relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation
“an evaporative cooler”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for evaporative come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.