EVALUATIVE Synonyms

• using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)

• of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience

• being of striking appropriateness and pertinence

• marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

• at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction

• characterized by careful evaluation and judgment

• being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency

• of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism

• urgently needed; absolutely necessary

• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

• concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis

• characteristic or indicative of a disease

• that provides interpretation

• the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

• depending on judgment

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine

• set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

• estimate the value of (property) for taxation