APPRAISIVE Synonyms

• using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)

• of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience

• marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

• at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction

• characterized by careful evaluation and judgment

• being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency

• of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism

• urgently needed; absolutely necessary

• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

• concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis

• characteristic or indicative of a disease

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• quick to understand

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

• showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• exercising or involving careful evaluations

• that provides interpretation

• depending on judgment

• of or relating to perception

• having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment

• tending to select; characterized by careful choice

• characterized by very careful or fastidious selection