evaluative
/ɪˈvæl.ju.ə.tɪv/
evaluative adjective: relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
Adjective
evaluative (comparative more evaluative, superlative most evaluative)
- Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
- The college's position has always been that the opinion of students and colleagues was an important part of the evaluative process leading to tenure decisions.1991 August 31, Dawn Schmitz, quoting Ed Hershey, “Homophobe Loses Libel Lawsuit”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 2
- Judgmental; tending to reduce a thing to a simple evaluation.
Examples of evaluative in a sentence
- It is thus possible to assume that the indiscriminative interpretation and the evaluative interpretation (Eval) are related.
- But such evaluative diversity just is what reasonable pluralism about values involves.
- Thus explicatives do not necessarily serve the evaluative function of bringing several actions together.
Forms of evaluative
| comparative | more evaluative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most evaluative |
Origin of evaluative
From evaluate + -ive.
Words formed from evaluative
Phrases with evaluative
Questions about evaluative
- What does evaluative mean?
- Evaluative means relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
- What part of speech is evaluative?
- Evaluative is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce evaluative?
- Evaluative is pronounced /ɪˈvæl.ju.ə.tɪv/.
Words near evaluative in the dictionary
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