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summative

/ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ UK
/ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ Canada, US
[ˈsʌm.ə.ɾɪv] Canada, US
/ˈsam.ə.tɪv/ Australia
[ˈsam.ə.ɾɪv] Australia

adjective

not comparable Synonym of additive.
Similar: additive
not comparable Synonym of summary (adjective). Near-synonym: abstractive
Similar: summarizing[participial adjective|part. adj.]]>, abstractive, summary
not comparable Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes. summative assessment

noun summatives

A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study. 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.
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. Holonym: metadiscourse
A cumulative measure. The ECB (2021a, 2021b, 2021c), for example, has allowed its supervising banks to operate temporarily under the LCR, and the Swedish regulator (Reuters, 2020) has extended this to various currencies, allowing banks to 'temporarily fall below the liquidity ration (LCR) for individual foreign exchange

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@misc{summative_2026,
  title = {summative},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/summative},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}