evaluative

Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.

Adjective

  1. 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,...
  2. 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

more evaluative most evaluative

Derived

evaluative diversity evaluatively evaluativeness evaluativism evaluativist nonevaluative postevaluative socioevaluative