Definition of objective
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a
: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations
objective art an objective history of the war an objective judgment
b
of a test
: limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum
Each question on the objective test requires the selection of the correct answer from among several choices.
2a
: of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind
objective reality … our reveries … are significantly and repeatedly shaped by our transactions with the objective world.— Marvin Reznikoff
— compare subjective sense 3a
b
: involving or deriving from sense perception or experience with actual objects, conditions, or phenomena
objective awareness objective data
c
of a symptom of disease
: perceptible to persons other than the affected individual
objective arthritis
— compare subjective sense 4c
d
: relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence
—used chiefly in medieval philosophy
3
: relating to, characteristic of, or constituting the case of words that follow prepositions or transitive verbs
The pronoun her is in the objective case in the sentence "I saw her."
objective
nounDefinition of objective (Entry 2 of 2)
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The first known use of objective was in 1647
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