summative
/ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
noun
A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
noun
A word or phrase, such as "in short" or "therefore", that signals that the area of the utterance (text or speech) that contains it is summarizing a larger body of information.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: abstractive"
- "summative assessment"
- "The reson a summative evaluation might not be available at this point is that it is not unusual to offer summatives for more than one objective as opposed to offering summatives for each objective."
- "Summatives, on the other hand, are used for comparisons between schools and districts."
- "All of this was great, and there were many summatives that we loved for many reasons. Since becoming standards based, however, our thoughts on summatives have changed."
- "Holonym: metadiscourse"
Etymology
Etymology tree English sum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English summative From sum + -ative.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/
- British English: /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/