MEANING
to judge the value, quality, or effectiveness of something using relevant criteria
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Words that belong together
- evaluate a claim
- evaluate effectiveness
- critically evaluate
On the page
The review evaluates three explanations for the decline.
We evaluated the program against its stated goals.
A larger sample would help evaluate the model's accuracy.
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Word forms
- Base
- evaluate / evaluates
- Past tense
- evaluated
- Past participle
- evaluated
- Present participle
- evaluating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- evaluate / evaluates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are evaluating
- Present perfect
- have/has evaluated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been evaluating
- Past
- evaluated
- Past continuous
- was/were evaluating
- Past perfect
- had evaluated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been evaluating
- Future
- will evaluate / evaluates
- Future continuous
- will be evaluating
- Future perfect
- will have evaluated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been evaluating
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. Evaluation makes a judgment; measurement supplies quantities and may form only one part of it. evaluate; evaluates; evaluated; evaluated; evaluating. Related noun: evaluation.
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