Objective
[əb'dʒektɪv] or [əb'dʒɛktɪv]
Definition
(noun.) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed.
(adj.) belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; 'objective benefits'; 'an objective example'; 'there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind' .
(adj.) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; 'an objective appraisal'; 'objective evidence' .
(adj.) emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; 'objective art' .
(adj.) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; 'objective case'; 'accusative endings' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to an object.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective.
(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.
(n.) The objective case.
(n.) An object glass. See under Object, n.
(n.) Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Extrinsic, concrete, external
ANT:Intrinsic, abstract, notional, subjective
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Examples
- To Gerald, the smallish, odd figure of the German was distinct and objective, as if seen through field glasses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The mind acquires through language a field of activity independent of the objective world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Few reached their objective, and those that did were readily disposed of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Because it takes a pronoun after it in the objective case, Miss Peecher. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was to act from here, looking to Richmond as his objective point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Believing, however, in the practicability of capturing Richmond unless it was reinforced, I made that the objective point of his operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Johnston's army was the first objective, and that important railroad centre, Atlanta, the second. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They take for granted the objective changes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The subjective relation between them further suggested an objective one; although the passage from one to the other is really imaginary (Metaph. Plato. The Republic.
- Major-General Meade was instructed that Lee's army would be his objective point; that wherever Lee went he would go also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I steered a middle course between the Objective side and the Subjective side. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Separated from any objective development of affairs, these are reduced to mere personal states of pleasure or pain. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But the objective man, in Nietzsche's opinion, distrusts his own personality and regards it as some thing to be set aside as accidental, and a detriment to calm judgment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Gudrun, mocking and objective, watched and registered everything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These two armies, and the cities covered and defended by them, were the main objective points of the campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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