objective

B1
US /əbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/ UK /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/
adj noun Freq #6200

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events

    objective benefits

  2. 2
    adj

    emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation

    objective art

  3. 3
    adj

    serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

    objective case

  4. 4
    adj

    Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.

    Engagement of employees in the Public Administration and in the wider Public Sector, ..., shall take place either by competitive entry examination or by selection on the basis of predefined and objective criteria, and shall be subject to the control of an independent authority, as specified by law.

  5. 5
    adj

    Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.

    Let us now glance at the demonstrative and relative pronouns. Of the former there are but two in English, this and that, with their plural forms, these and those. To them, American adds a third, them, which is also the personal pronoun of the third person, objective case.

  6. 6
    adj

    Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)

    The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.

  7. 7
    noun

    A goal that is striven for.

    His [Henry Sweet's] true objective was the provision of a full, accurate, legible script for our noble but ill-dressed language; but he was led past that by his contempt for the popular Pitman system of Shorthand, which he called the Pitfall system.

  8. 8
    adj

    undistorted by emotion or personal bias

Etymology

From Middle English obgectyf, from Middle French objectif and its etymon Medieval Latin obiectīvus. By surface analysis, object + -ive.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 adj · emphasizing or expressing... documentary
3 adj · serving as or indicating... accusative
4 adj · based on observed facts;... factualjust
8 adj · undistorted by emotion or... nonsubjective
Opposites
subjective
Word family
Derived forms biobjectiveinterobjectivemultiobjectivenonobjectiveobjectivateobjectivationobjectivelyobjectivenessobjectivismobjectivistobjectivityobjectivize
Related forms goal

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