objective

adjective more objective · most objective

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

   Similar: disinterested, unbiased, candid, cold, clinical, detached, egal, equal, equitable, evenhanded, fairhanded, fair-minded

3. Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
4. Mind-independent 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.

   Similar: factual, just

5. Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb. The objective complement in "She makes us angry" is the adjective "angry".
6. 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.

Opposite: subjective

noun objectives

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 he called the Pitfall system.
3. The objective case.

   Similar: 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.

   Similar: objective lens