evaluative
Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
Adjective
- Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
- 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. - 1991 August 31, Dawn Schmitz, quoting Ed Hershey,...
- Judgmental; tending to reduce a thing to a simple evaluation.
Origin
Etymology tree English evaluate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English evaluative From evaluate + -ive.
Forms
Derived
evaluative diversity evaluatively evaluativeness evaluativism evaluativist nonevaluative postevaluative socioevaluative