CRITICAL APPRAISAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does critical appraisal mean? 

• CRITICAL APPRAISAL (noun)
  The noun CRITICAL APPRAISAL has 1 sense:

1. an appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation

  Familiarity information: CRITICAL APPRAISAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRITICAL APPRAISAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

critical analysis; critical appraisal

Hypernyms ("critical appraisal" is a kind of...):

appraisal; assessment (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "critical appraisal"):

criticism; critique (a serious examination and judgment of something)

 Context examples 

A critical appraisal of the evidence of the association between an assessment and the results of an observation.

(Assessment of Observation Result, NCI Thesaurus)