evaluative
/ɪˈvæl.ju.ə.tɪv/adjective
evaluative is an adjective meaning “Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-V-A-L-U-A-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does evaluative mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
- 2
Judgmental; tending to reduce a thing to a simple evaluation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce evaluative?
- /ɪˈvæl.ju.ə.tɪv/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-evaluative.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of evaluative
- more evaluative comparative
- most evaluative superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is evaluative?
Evaluative appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does evaluative come from?
From evaluate + -ive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).