The Collaborative International Dictionary
evaluative \evaluative\ adj. exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.
Syn: analytical, appraising(prenominal).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, from evaluate + -ive.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event. 2 judgmental; tending to reduce a thing to a simple evaluation.
WordNet
adj. exercising or involving careful evaluations; "looked him over with an appraising eye"; "the literary judge uses many evaluative terms" [syn: appraising(a)]
Usage examples of "evaluative".
As far as axiology is concerned, some evaluative criteria are always in place during our encounters with literature.
His printing was the straggling, struggling galvanic constructions of a six-year-old, and that was startling enough in itself, but there was more: if transcribed so that his still-developing motor control no longer became an evaluative factor, you would have thought you were reading the work of a bright, if extremely naive, fifth-grader, He progressed from simple sentences to compound sentences to complex ones with dizzying rapidity, grasping clauses, sub-clauses, and modifying clauses with an intuitiveness that was eerie.