EGAVE

objective

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 41.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
  2. adjective Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
  3. adjective Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
  4. adjective Mind-independent
  5. adjective 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. adjective Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
  7. noun A material object that physically exists.
  8. noun A goal that is striven for.

Similar words

object concrete representational verifiable accusative neutral impersonal cool object glass nonsubjective

Often followed by

of is and was function in reality to world

Word family

objectively objectiveness objectivenesses objectives objectivity

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