evaluative

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See also: évaluative

English

Etymology

From evaluate +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

Adjective

evaluative (comparative more evaluative, superlative most evaluative)

  1. Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
    • 1991 August 31, Dawn Schmitz, quoting Ed Hershey, “Homophobe Loses Libel Lawsuit”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 2:
      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.
  2. judgmental; tending to reduce a thing to a simple evaluation.

Derived terms

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

evaluative

  1. inflection of evaluativ:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular