evaluativeadj.

1927 L. V. Koos Amer. Secondary School vii. 221 Compilation and subsequent evaluative scrutiny of these claims.

1934 Philos. Rev. 43 127 The expression of such feeling of life, and of our evaluative reactions, is..admitted to be a legitimate and worth-while activity.

1939 Mind 48 469 It is only confusing to talk of a ‘valuational logic’ whose basic rule is that an evaluative conclusion cannot be deduced from non-evaluative premises.

1939 Mind 48 529 The existential transformation essential to inquiry is teleological and so evaluative.

1952 R. M. Hare Lang. Morals ii. vii. 111 Two sorts of things that we can say..about strawberries; the first sort is usually called descriptive, the second sort evaluative... Examples of the second sort of remark are ‘This is a good strawberry’ and ‘This strawberry is just as strawberries ought to be’.

1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iii. 44 The intention may be described as evaluative or appraisive, that is to say, the source not only designates some referent, but also provides its own evaluation of it.