EVALUATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evaluative mean? 

• EVALUATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective EVALUATIVE has 1 sense:

1. exercising or involving careful evaluations

  Familiarity information: EVALUATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVALUATIVE (adjective)

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)

Derivation:

evaluate (form a critical opinion of)

evaluate (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

 Context examples 

An evaluative response to an inquiry, process, event, or activity.

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Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; the point in space or time where something begins.

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