APPRAISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appraise mean? 

• APPRAISE (verb)
  The verb APPRAISE has 2 senses:

1. evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

2. consider in a comprehensive way

  Familiarity information: APPRAISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPRAISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they appraise    ... he / she / it appraises   
Past simple: appraised   
Past participle: appraised   
-ing form: appraising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

appraise; assess; evaluate; measure; valuate; value

Context example:

access all the factors when taking a risk

Hypernyms (to "appraise" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Verb group:

assess (estimate the value of (property) for taxation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "appraise"):

grade; mark; score (assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation)

rate; value (estimate the value of)

standardise; standardize (evaluate by comparing with a standard)

reassess; reevaluate (revise or renew one's assessment)

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

praise (express approval of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

appraisal (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)

appraiser (one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things)

appraiser (one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider in a comprehensive way

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

appraise; survey

Context example:

He appraised the situation carefully before acting

Hypernyms (to "appraise" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Often, among the women he met, he would see now one, now another, looking at him, appraising him, selecting him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I fear that he does not appraise me at much.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But White Fang soon learned to differentiate between thieves and honest men, to appraise the true value of step and carriage.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In what should have been a moment of fire, he coldly appraised her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"A brother socialist?" the reporter asked, with a quick glance at Brissenden that appraised the color-value of that cadaverous and dying man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She wanted to cry out at the recklessness of the thought, and in vain she appraised her own cleanness and culture and balanced all that she was against what he was not.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He drew up lists of effective and fetching mannerisms, till out of many such, culled from many writers, he was able to induce the general principle of mannerism, and, thus equipped, to cast about for new and original ones of his own, and to weigh and measure and appraise them properly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Also, when his secret glance went across to Norman opposite him, or to any one else, to ascertain just what knife or fork was to be used in any particular occasion, that person's features were seized upon by his mind, which automatically strove to appraise them and to divine what they were—all in relation to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)