Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To estimate the price or value of.
  • transitive verb To make a considered judgment about; assess or size up: synonym: estimate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • . To value; prize.
  • To value in current money; officially set a price upon; estimate the value of: used especially of the action of a person or persons appointed for the purpose, under direction of law or by agreement of persons interested: as, to appraise the goods and estate of a deceased person, or goods taken under a distress for rent.
  • To estimate generally, in regard to quality, service, size, weight, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose.
  • transitive verb To estimate; to conjecture.
  • transitive verb obsolete To praise; to commend.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb proscribed To apprise, inform.
  • verb To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
  • verb To estimate; to conjecture.
  • verb To praise; to commend.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
  • verb consider in a comprehensive way

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English appreisen, possibly from Old French aprisier, from Late Latin appretiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin pretium, price; see per- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Incorrect form of apprise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French aprisier ("apraise, set a price on") (French apprécier), from Late Latin appretiare, from ad- + pretium ("price, value") (English precious), from which also appreciate.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word appraise.

Examples

  • Park at the curb (by the owls) to "appraise" him of the suspected rodent murder at the school grounds.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

  • Hecker had quietly stashed in North Dakota allegedly so jeweler friends could "appraise" them.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • If your job were to appraise toxic debt could you in all honesty exclude the factors noted above, that interfere with price discovery?

    Adams bankers say they'll go after Breedlove (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • At Christie's since 1998, Giovanna Bertazzoni has a relentless schedule, flying in and out of the British capital regularly to meet with private collectors to appraise their works.

    Christie's Giovanna Bertazzoni Lets Her Hair Down Javier Espinoza 2011

  • The final item on our agenda, the raison d'être I'd invited Mr. Keno over in the first place, was to examine the table by the front door, the one that resembled the piece of furniture I'd seen him appraise on "Roadshow," and which also came from my grandmother.

    Picky on Provenance Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

    Perfecting the Power to Perceive 2010

  • Most "well-managed" organizations have collected the information they need to appraise the 2010 performance of their employees and either have given -- or are about to give -- the results to them.

    Ed Lawler: Evaluating Employees? Add Environmental and Societal Impact to Your Performance Checklist Ed Lawler 2011

  • The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

    The Reading Experience 2010

  • Most "well-managed" organizations have collected the information they need to appraise the 2010 performance of their employees and either have given -- or are about to give -- the results to them.

    Ed Lawler: Evaluating Employees? Add Environmental and Societal Impact to Your Performance Checklist Ed Lawler 2011

  • The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

    John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.