appraisal
/əˈpɹeɪzəl/
appraisal noun: the act or process of developing an opinion of value.
Noun
appraisal (countable and uncountable, plural appraisals)
- The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
- She hated that silent appraisal, watching someone compare her to a version that she might have been.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 47
- A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
appraisal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
appraisal in Hindi
- judgement
- आकलन āklan
appraisal in Tamil
- judgement
- மதிப்பீடு matippīṭu
appraisal in Urdu
- قدرو قیمت کا اندازہ, وقعت کا اندازہ
appraisal in Bengali
- মূল্যায়ন, কোনো কিছুর গুণ, মান, মূল্য নির্ধারণের প্রক্রিয়া, কর্মীর কর্মদক্ষতা পর্যালোচনা
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- appraisal in Malayalam
- മൂല്യനിർണ്ണയനം, വിലയിരുത്തൽ, മൂല്യം കല്പിക്കൽ, മൂല്യം നിർണ്ണയിക്കൽ
- appraisal in Punjabi
- تعریف taʻrīf
- appraisal in Persian
- ارزیابی
Examples of appraisal in a sentence
- The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.
- A realistic appraisal of the situation.
- They use words like appraisal, evaluation, assessment, their Roget's litany, to avoid the constrained "test" connotation.
Forms of appraisal
| plural | appraisals |
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Origin of appraisal
From appraise + -al.
Words formed from appraisal
- appraisal cost
- appraisal theory
- e-appraisal
- miniappraisal
- misappraisal
- nonappraisal
- overappraisal
- quasi-appraisal
- re-appraisal
- reappraisal
- self-appraisal
- underappraisal
Phrases with appraisal
Words that rhyme with appraisal
- hazel
- nasal
- intranasal
- phrasal
- alinasal
- antronasal
- basinasal
- binasal
- bucconasal
- circumnasal
- dorsonasal
- endonasal
40 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- epinasal
- ethmonasal
- extranasal
- frontonasal
- hypernasal
- hyponasal
- inferonasal
- infranasal
- internasal
- labionasal
- lacrimonasal
- linguonasal
- maxillonasal
- mesonasal
- muconasal
- nonnasal
- oculonasal
- oralnasal
- orbitonasal
- oronasal
- orthonasal
- palatonasal
- palpebronasal
- paranasal
- perinasal
- pharyngonasal
- postnasal
- prenasal
- retronasal
- rostronasal
- septonasal
- sinonasal
- subnasal
- superonasal
- supranasal
- temporonasal
- tracheonasal
- transnasal
- ventronasal
- vomeronasal
Questions about appraisal
- What does appraisal mean?
- Appraisal means the act or process of developing an opinion of value.
- What is appraisal in Hindi?
- Appraisal in Hindi is आकलन (āklan). See Appraisal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is appraisal?
- Appraisal is a noun.
- How do you pronounce appraisal?
- Appraisal is pronounced /əˈpɹeɪzəl/.
- What is the plural of appraisal?
- The plural of appraisal is appraisals.
Words near appraisal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: appraisal (page history and authors); appraisal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); appraisal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); appraisal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); تعریف (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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