Reevaluates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Carefully examines something again to form a new opinion or judgment
2. Reviews or analyzes information anew to update or change a previous assessment
3. Reconsiders information or situations to decide if a different conclusion is necessary

Etymology: "Reevaluates" is the third-person singular present form of "reevaluate," so the story belongs to that verb. It is built from the prefix "re-," meaning "again" or "back," attached to "evaluate," which comes from the French "évaluer," meaning "to find the value of." The base word itself was formed from "value" and the Latin "-ate" verb ending, so the whole chain runs back to the idea of putting a price on something. The prefix "re-" is the older and more widely traveled piece. It descends from Latin "re-," which English took in through Old French and Middle English, where it became a productive way to add the sense of doing something once more. Pairing it with "evaluate" creates a word meaning to appraise something a second time, with the original assessment now open to revision.

Synonyms: assesses again, reassesses, reviews