objective

Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
  2. Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.

    Synonyms: disinterested unbiased candid cold clinical detached egal equal equitable evenhanded fairhanded fair-minded dispassionate impartial imprejudicate indifferent indistinguishing neuter neutral nonaligned nonpartial nonpartisan nonpersonal objective

  3. 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...
    • The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized. - 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through...

    Synonyms: factual just

  4. 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...
  5. 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. -...

Origin

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

Forms

more objective most objective

Antonyms

subjective

Derived

biobjective interobjective multiobjective nonobjective objectivate objectivation objective clause objective correlative objective function objective lens objectively objectiveness objective piece objective synonym objective tinnitus Objectivism objectivism objectivist objectivity objectivize orchestrated objective reduction triobjective unobjective

Noun

  1. A material object that physically exists.
  2. 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...
    • In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway. - 1957 July 5, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in...
    • The Group has recently concentrated on two main objectives, the implementation of a Code of Practice on minor station improvements and the preparation of a stock list of approved items of equipment for railway stations....
  3. The objective case.

    Synonyms: object case objective case

  4. a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
  5. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

    Synonyms: objective lens

Forms

objectives

Related

goal

Derived

behavioral objective cost objective learning objective recovery time objective subobjective teleobjective