Other forms: appraisals
An appraisal is a considered judgement of how good or how valuable something is. The yearly meeting where your manager goes through your work is an appraisal, and so is the expert turning a vase over in her hands before naming a price.
The word nearly always takes of: an appraisal of the damage, a frank appraisal of our chances. It leans formal and careful, because an appraisal is not a quick opinion but something weighed, which is why critical appraisal and honest appraisal come up so much. In American English the money sense dominates, where a home appraisal is what a bank orders before lending and the person doing it is an appraiser. The verb is appraise. Keep it apart from apprise, which means to inform: your boss appraises your work, then apprises you of the result.
1nounevaluationA judgement of how good, valuable or effective something is.~78%
“The report offers a sober appraisal of the country's finances.”
synonyms: assessment, evaluation
2nounappraisalA formal meeting at which an employer reviews how well someone has been working.~17%
“My appraisal is on Thursday and I still have not written my self-assessment.”
synonyms: performance review
3nounvaluationAn official estimate of what something is worth.~5%
“The insurance company asked for an appraisal of the painting.”
synonyms: valuation
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 18 sentences found in the wild and placed 18 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
appraisal is a formal judgement.
Also accepted in games: performance review, evaluation
From appraise + -al.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA