Subjective Meaning
/səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjFormed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
adjPertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
Sentence Examples
His writing is very subjective.
Subjective reality is whatever the hell I want it to be.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Her opinion about the movie was purely ____, based on her own feelings.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beauty of art is often very ____, as different people can have very different tastes and ideas.
Word Origin & History
From Latin subiectīvus, equivalent to subject + -ive.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it."
— 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her opinion about the movie was purely ____, based on her own feelings.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beauty of art is often very ____, as different people can have very different tastes and ideas.