evaluative

evaluative

See also: évaluative

English

Etymology

    From evaluate + -ive.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɪˈvæl.ju.ə.tɪv/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    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