The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evaporative \E*vap"o*ra*tive\, a. [L. evaporatius: cf. F. Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, producing, or produced by evaporation.
WordNet
adj. relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation; "an evaporative cooler"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "evaporative".
As usual, it did not, and before long he was once more reduced to dependence on the inadequate evaporative efforts of his thermosensitive shorts and vest.
His heat would balance out the evaporative cooling of the earth, and he should be able to blend into the background.
It was based in an evaporative solvent which was identified as a coal-tar derivative, but the purified sap was from an ancient Coccus lacca insect extinct for millennia.
At the same time, because of the evaporative process, there is water vapour in the snow mass and, due to the low temperature, the separate granules tend to bond together by freezing.