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APPRAISING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does appraising mean?
• APPRAISING (adjective)
The adjective APPRAISING has 1 sense:
1. exercising or involving careful evaluations
Familiarity information: APPRAISING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exercising or involving careful evaluations
Synonyms:
appraising; evaluative
Context example:
the literary judge uses many evaluative terms
Similar:
critical (characterized by careful evaluation and judgment)
Context examples
Often, among the women he met, he would see now one, now another, looking at him, appraising him, selecting him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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