objective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: more objective
form: most objective
Etymology: From Middle English obgectyf, from Middle French objectif and its etymon Medieval Latin obiectīvus. By surface analysis, object + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
synonyms: word: disinterested
word: unbiased
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1975, Constitution of Greece:
text: The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
synonyms: factual
just
glosses: Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
examples: text: 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.
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 41, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
Derived terms: 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