appraisive

Examples

• All

• The report included an appraisive analysis of the company's assets.

• During the meeting, she offered appraisive feedback on the project's success.

• When built up, these signs tend to arouse the interpretants of a whole host of designative, appraisive, and prescriptive linguistic utterances which have occurred in their presence.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Tare especially notable: those having to do with the cognitive, appraisive, and social character of emotion and emotional expression. (However, expression among psychologists is likely to be associated with facial and, to a lesser extent, bodily movement of muscles.)

  Academic text (1993)

• The appraisive feature of emotions is apparent when we realize that anger is a response to or an accompaniment of our perception of an unwarranted threat on the part of another agent to our well-being, and jealousy is an aspect of our having appraised someone as a rival to the affections we seek from another.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

E

evaluative

vsappraisive

2 7.1

Giving an opinion about the value or quality of something

covers value judgments including formal or monetary evaluations

A

appraising

vsappraisive

2 5.3

Looking at or listening to something to judge its value

expresses judgments or value assessments rather than the careful act itself

V

valuative

vsappraisive

1 8.3

Saying that something is good or bad

focuses on expressed judgment or worth rather than just the act

V

valuational

vsappraisive

8.1

About judging how important or useful something is

includes formal or monetary judgments beyond general assessment

How Evaluative

judgmental

• US

84 4.6

critical

234 3.8

appraisive

1 8.4

evaluative

2 7.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology