evaluation

noun

eval·​u·​a·​tion i-ˌval-yə-ˈwā-shən 

-yü-ˈā-

plural evaluations

: the act or result of evaluating

a situation that requires careful evaluation

: determination of the value, nature, character, or quality of something or someone

What's your evaluation of her writing ability?

a patient undergoing psychiatric evaluation

The CIA described my evaluation of the situation as "sound, perceptive and very much in line with our own."

—Robert S. McNamara

Only 24 states require any kind of testing or evaluation for homeschooled students …

—Andrew J. Rotherham

As part of a standard evaluation, patients are given a series of tests …

—Jerome Groopman

Synonyms of evaluation

• assessment
• appraisal

Examples of evaluation in a Sentence

what's your evaluation of her writing ability?

the evaluation of the defendant's mental condition was conducted by a team of psychiatrists

Recent Examples on the Web

Those revisions included the five-day waiting period, a requirement for an audio or video recording by the patient requesting the medication, a mental health evaluation and barring any financial beneficiary from serving as a witness for the request. — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

Worth noting Marcelo Mayer, acquired on Monday from the Boston Red Sox, will report to San Francisco for an evaluation. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

In the three incidents that the AI lab detected, its models accessed the Internet while interacting with a testing environment from one of its third-party evaluation partners called Irregular. — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

From this pool, researchers selected 27 representative molecules for laboratory evaluation under identical testing conditions. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1622, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing evaluation

• re-evaluation

Rhymes for evaluation

• abdication
• aberration
• abjuration
• abnegation
• abrogation
• acceptation
• acclamation
• acclimation
• accusation
• activation
• actuation
• acylation