Objective Meaning
/ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
adjNot influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
Sentence Examples
Being objective means not telling everybody whose side you are on.
From an objective viewpoint, his argument was far from rational.
An objective assessment of the situation
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A good scientist must be ____ and not let emotions affect experimental results.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The main ____ of the project is to increase the company's market share by ten percent.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English obgectyf, from Middle French objectif and its etymon Medieval Latin obiectīvus. By surface analysis, object + -ive.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1975, Constitution of Greece:
"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 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:
"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."
— [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 41, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
"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."
— 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN:
"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."
— 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion. Preface.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, page 101:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A good scientist must be ____ and not let emotions affect experimental results.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The main ____ of the project is to increase the company's market share by ten percent.