evaluate
verb
transitive verb
Synonyms
- appraise
- assess
- estimate
- guesstimate
- rate
- set
- valuate
- value
Example Sentences
CBS News, 9 Sep. 2022 Noem's attorney argued that the Government Accountability Board did not have the constitutional power to act against the governor or evaluate the complaint against her. Stephen Groves, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022 There are five games left this season for Ramos to evaluate players. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2022 For certain instances, A.I. and machine learning lets organizations quickly gather and interpret large amounts of data to evaluate areas of need: predicting where and why hunger occurs and efficient food distribution. Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022 After local providers evaluate patients’ screening eligibility, LUCAS arrives to perform the LDCTs. Simar Bajaj, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2022 Before Thursday’s votes, many members of the panel expressed discomfort about the lack of data in humans to evaluate the new boosters, saying the absence of human testing may prevent people from getting the shots. Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 1 Sep. 2022 Grossi is leading the inspection team, which will meet with local officials and visit the nuclear plant to evaluate working conditions and how well safety systems are functioning. Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Aug. 2022 The oral transmission sent the message that rabbis in each generation, basing themselves on the Torah and prior rabbinic rulings, could continue to evaluate and contribute new teachings. Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
back-formation from evaluation, from French évaluation, from Middle French evaluacion, from esvaluer to evaluate, from e- + value value
1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing evaluate
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- assess
- estimate
- value
- appraise
- rate
- analyze
- valuate
- guesstimate
- set
- determine
- ascertain
- discover
- learn
- judge
- deem
- test
- adjudge
- reassess
- reevaluate
- decide
- survey
- price
- reappraise
- assay
- prize
- revalue
- underestimate
- misjudge
- rejudge
- undervalue
- transvaluate
- settle
- transvalue
- misesteem
- misprize
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of evaluate are appraise, assess, estimate, rate, and value. While all these words mean "to judge something with respect to its worth or significance," evaluate suggests an attempt to determine relative or intrinsic worth in terms other than monetary.
The synonyms appraise and evaluate are sometimes interchangeable, but appraise commonly implies the fixing by an expert of the monetary worth of a thing, but it may be used of any critical judgment.
The words assess and evaluate can be used in similar contexts, but assess implies a critical appraisal for the purpose of understanding or interpreting, or as a guide in taking action.
The words estimate and evaluate are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, estimate implies a judgment, considered or casual, that precedes or takes the place of actual measuring or counting or testing out.
Rate adds to estimate the notion of placing a thing according to a scale of values.
Value equals appraise but without implying expertness of judgment.