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Definition of objective in English: objectiveadjective əbˈdʒɛktɪvəbˈdʒɛktɪv 1(of a person or their judgement) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. historians try to be objective and impartial Contrasted with subjective Example sentencesExamples - This contrasts with the common image of scientists being objective and impartial analysts who allow the empirical facts to speak for themselves.
- Secondly, becoming professionals has sometimes made historians pretend to an Olympian detachment from, and objective judgement on, the present and the past.
- His behaviour may not be technically wrong, but to outside, objective observers it just seems wrong.
- In the absence of an infallible and objective observer, judging competence from within a hierarchy is always likely to be a hit and miss affair.
- Second, I am stating my opinions and hopefully I am more objective than judgemental.
- The psychological contract is an attempt by a worker to impose order and responsibility to a situation where that person may have little objective power.
- The moral relativism that pollutes what remain of the rules of war - the good guys never do bad things - has entirely eradicated objective judgement.
- Neutral parties, objective people who would not ask, and would only obey.
- Sometimes, we can overlook this fact and describe ourselves as objective scientists, but this understates the role of the economist in modern society.
- As an objective observer, as you turn on the news every night, and you see what's going on in the Gulf Coast down there, so many people have lost so much.
- Although the media can be reluctant to analyse or even accept that its own role is any more than that of an objective observer, its networks are formidable.
- I was determined to remain a disinterested, objective observer in order to respond to student questions or problems.
- Any objective person would have to say that over the last four years we have invested more particularly in cancer services than we did in the past twenty years.
- Nevertheless, the accumulation of evidence in a wide range of areas must surely force any reasonably objective observer to the conclusion that urgent policy action is required on a global level.
- The only positive aspect that has emerged from the meeting is the fact that more objective members have started questioning the sudden conversion of Zuma into a friend of the workers and the masses.
- But when you're in the room with him, I believe that any trying to be objective person would come away with the impression, one, this is not a dumb person.
- Barely a day goes by without news of a terrorist incident, and speak to any objective observer and they will tell you that, for all the progress, big problems remain.
- Just to establish the ground rules, I know I am neither neutral nor the most objective observer on the subject I'm about to discuss in this space.
- Cornwallis fumed, and later historians have echoed his frustration, but should that be accepted as an objective judgement of the behaviour of Halifax's pioneers?
- This is anti - foundationalism, where the foundations were the hard facts of objective judgement and absolute truth.
Synonyms impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, non-partisan, disinterested, non-discriminatory, neutral, uninvolved, even-handed, equitable, fair, fair-minded, just, open-minded, dispassionate, detached, impersonal, unemotional, clinical - 1.1 Not dependent on the mind for existence; actual.
a matter of objective fact Example sentencesExamples - Frege ascribes to senses and thoughts objective existence.
- This is what threatens materialism, since according to that doctrine, every fact about every human mind is ultimately a public, objective fact.
- With Hegel's concept of objective spirit, the object domain of modern social science, that is, individuality and society, make their appearance.
- We can therefore say at the very least that there is no objective proof of the existence of a suicide tidal wave.
- Even a seemingly neutral description of the offence itself can be action-oriented in terms of constructing the objective, factual basis of the crime.
- The operational definitions that we adopt here are: Real objects are any objects that have an actual objective existence.
- Like after the statements have had their desired effect to sway opinion and to make subjective assertions become, in the public mind, objective fact.
- In much the same way, arguments about the existence of God are only useful if you accept the notion that petitionary prayer can result in an objective effect in the phenomenal world.
- But there is no longer any objective justification for the existence of competing small groups.
- Controversial, yes, but I'm saying those physical laws don't have an objective existence, they're categories we apply to experiences.
- If television could be relied upon to provide an objective rendering of actual events (we'll call it news) then I might be in.
- She argues that ontological realism about a type of entity is justified if the objective existence of the entities is part of our best explanation of the world.
- No, I'm saying there is no ultimate reality, no objective existence, no ontology at all.
- You posit an external, objective reality whose solidity allows an objective mind to perceive it fully and without cultural bias or observational tint.
- In this sense their condition is epistemologically objective but ontologically subjective.
- It describes the test as ‘willingness’ and ‘ability’ as being relevant to the existence of an objective basis.
- There is authentic meaning, a reason for existence that is objective and real, not invented.
- But it was conditional upon the objective existence of the factual circumstance, that is, that the termination was unfair, harsh or unjust.
- One reason why these studies are so important for the false memory controversy is that an objective record of the actual events is available.
- Time is the form of inner sense, that is, of all states of mind, whether or not they are referred to an objective reality.
Synonyms factual, actual, real, empirical, verifiable, existing, manifest
2Grammar attributive Relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns serving as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition. Example sentencesExamples - Two prepositions should not govern one objective unless there is an immediate connection between them.
noun əbˈdʒɛktɪvəbˈdʒɛktɪv 1A thing aimed at or sought; a goal. the system has achieved its objective Example sentencesExamples - Only by uniting under one banner will pensioners ever achieve their objectives.
- The process is the means through which they seek to attain their objectives.
- You have goals and objectives, but there are many different ways of going about achieving them.
- But the premier stressed that achieving the objective of drastically streamlining rural administration would take time.
- The proposals achieve our basic objectives and it is a major first step forward.
- Is the proposed law or regulation the least intrusive way [i.e. least impact on rights] that the desired objective can be achieved?
- It remains our objective to seek commercial development of our lands that are non-core to our bloodstock auctioneering business, stated Mr Osborne.
- Overall, sustained efforts will be required in order to achieve the ambitious objective of the Strategy, which is to have a qualified and efficient civil service in place in the medium term.
- To help us achieve our objective of scoring goals, we have brought in Prince Nkosi.
- A £4,500 payment in compensation is a big enough deterrent, we believe, to achieve our main objective of discouraging illegal filesharing.
- It is a mechanism through which societies seek to achieve political objectives.
- A terrorist is a person or persons who instigate violence upon an innocent party in order to achieve an objective or goal.
- It is possible to set learning objectives and plan activities that the teacher hopes will achieve the objective, but the outcome will be different for different students.
- Whenever we use cryptography it is important that we check that it is helping us achieve our desired objectives.
- The key is to make players realise that the common goal can help them achieve individual objectives.
- We just did not seem able to recruit the staff at York in the required numbers to achieve our objectives.
- In war, the balance of protection lies squarely on one's own forces, whose security is not only important in human terms but in the context of achieving a military objective.
- I also regularly have meetings with them to discuss objectives and goals.
- The report outlines a number of goals and objectives, all of which are no doubt very laudable.
- If one life is saved as a result of this campaign, we will achieve our objective.
Synonyms aim, intention, purpose, target, goal, intent, object, end, end in view, grail, holy grail idea, design, plan, scheme, ambition, aspiration, desire, hope the point, the object of the exercise 2the objectiveGrammar The objective case. Example sentencesExamples - The objective normally begins with a simple conventional declarative sentence known as the "kernel" which is then transformed into a complex structure to satisfy the objective by adding or rearranging transformational sentence components.
- The root with the added o is the nominative, the objective adds an n after the o.
3The lens in a telescope or microscope nearest to the object observed. examine with high power objective Example sentencesExamples - This shaped beam profile is imaged through the telescope system onto the back focal plane of the microscope objective.
- He had introduced a field lens, a third lens between the objective lens and the eye-piece, which served to increase the field of view.
- Small holes were made in the film for the microscope objective lens and the micropipette.
- Laser power before entering the microscope objective was 120 W and the wavelength was 495 nm for all experiments shown.
- The pattern passes through the microscope objective onto the sample.
Derivatives noun əbˈdʒɛktɪvnəsəbˈdʒɛktɪvnəs They were also selected because I know a little about their lives, and therefore can make better judgements on the objectiveness of their interviews. Example sentencesExamples - I'm simply a fan of objectiveness and historical exactness.
- It seems to me that, although the point he makes about the objectiveness of the academic approach to training, I think there are many points he makes that are wise.
- Much like respect, the qualities of impartiality and objectiveness must be earned rather than demanded.
- I want to emphasise the necessity for independence and objectiveness in licensing.
noun Contrary to Habermas, we should take the objectivisation of the genome fully on board. Example sentencesExamples - I'm concerned about a nonhuman objectivisation taking place where what's in my house is determined not by my use, but how the things were manufactured and named.
- So with the objectivization of law, the extracting of it from any natural, religious or even societally relevant background, law can become an object of major change and creation.
verb əbˈdʒɛktɪvʌɪzəbˈdʒɛktəˌvaɪz [with object]1View or interpret objectively without the influence of personal feelings or opinions. research statistics help us objectivize and explain the world around us Example sentencesExamples - we risk objectivizing what is essentially an internal set of experiences
- While the former cannot be thematized and must remain an ever receding background, the latter can be thematized and objectivised partially.
- For we risk objectivizing what is essentially an internal set of experiences and excluding the necessary presence of the experiencer.
- This tendency leads to an ‘objectivizing’ or an absolutizing of the language and the cultural elements through which the truth was given expression.
- porn that objectivizes women
2Degrade to the status of a mere object; objectify.
Origin Early 17th century: from medieval Latin objectivus, from objectum (see object). Definition of objective in US English: objectiveadjectiveəbˈdʒɛktɪvəbˈjektiv 1(of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. historians try to be objective and impartial Contrasted with subjective Example sentencesExamples - I was determined to remain a disinterested, objective observer in order to respond to student questions or problems.
- Nevertheless, the accumulation of evidence in a wide range of areas must surely force any reasonably objective observer to the conclusion that urgent policy action is required on a global level.
- Although the media can be reluctant to analyse or even accept that its own role is any more than that of an objective observer, its networks are formidable.
- This contrasts with the common image of scientists being objective and impartial analysts who allow the empirical facts to speak for themselves.
- But when you're in the room with him, I believe that any trying to be objective person would come away with the impression, one, this is not a dumb person.
- The moral relativism that pollutes what remain of the rules of war - the good guys never do bad things - has entirely eradicated objective judgement.
- Cornwallis fumed, and later historians have echoed his frustration, but should that be accepted as an objective judgement of the behaviour of Halifax's pioneers?
- As an objective observer, as you turn on the news every night, and you see what's going on in the Gulf Coast down there, so many people have lost so much.
- Any objective person would have to say that over the last four years we have invested more particularly in cancer services than we did in the past twenty years.
- This is anti - foundationalism, where the foundations were the hard facts of objective judgement and absolute truth.
- His behaviour may not be technically wrong, but to outside, objective observers it just seems wrong.
- Sometimes, we can overlook this fact and describe ourselves as objective scientists, but this understates the role of the economist in modern society.
- Secondly, becoming professionals has sometimes made historians pretend to an Olympian detachment from, and objective judgement on, the present and the past.
- Barely a day goes by without news of a terrorist incident, and speak to any objective observer and they will tell you that, for all the progress, big problems remain.
- Neutral parties, objective people who would not ask, and would only obey.
- The only positive aspect that has emerged from the meeting is the fact that more objective members have started questioning the sudden conversion of Zuma into a friend of the workers and the masses.
- Just to establish the ground rules, I know I am neither neutral nor the most objective observer on the subject I'm about to discuss in this space.
- In the absence of an infallible and objective observer, judging competence from within a hierarchy is always likely to be a hit and miss affair.
- The psychological contract is an attempt by a worker to impose order and responsibility to a situation where that person may have little objective power.
- Second, I am stating my opinions and hopefully I am more objective than judgemental.
Synonyms impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, non-partisan, disinterested, non-discriminatory, neutral, uninvolved, even-handed, equitable, fair, fair-minded, just, open-minded, dispassionate, detached, impersonal, unemotional, clinical - 1.1 Not dependent on the mind for existence; actual.
a matter of objective fact Example sentencesExamples - Time is the form of inner sense, that is, of all states of mind, whether or not they are referred to an objective reality.
- Even a seemingly neutral description of the offence itself can be action-oriented in terms of constructing the objective, factual basis of the crime.
- No, I'm saying there is no ultimate reality, no objective existence, no ontology at all.
- It describes the test as ‘willingness’ and ‘ability’ as being relevant to the existence of an objective basis.
- There is authentic meaning, a reason for existence that is objective and real, not invented.
- If television could be relied upon to provide an objective rendering of actual events (we'll call it news) then I might be in.
- She argues that ontological realism about a type of entity is justified if the objective existence of the entities is part of our best explanation of the world.
- With Hegel's concept of objective spirit, the object domain of modern social science, that is, individuality and society, make their appearance.
- Controversial, yes, but I'm saying those physical laws don't have an objective existence, they're categories we apply to experiences.
- The operational definitions that we adopt here are: Real objects are any objects that have an actual objective existence.
- Frege ascribes to senses and thoughts objective existence.
- You posit an external, objective reality whose solidity allows an objective mind to perceive it fully and without cultural bias or observational tint.
- In much the same way, arguments about the existence of God are only useful if you accept the notion that petitionary prayer can result in an objective effect in the phenomenal world.
- Like after the statements have had their desired effect to sway opinion and to make subjective assertions become, in the public mind, objective fact.
- But there is no longer any objective justification for the existence of competing small groups.
- This is what threatens materialism, since according to that doctrine, every fact about every human mind is ultimately a public, objective fact.
- One reason why these studies are so important for the false memory controversy is that an objective record of the actual events is available.
- In this sense their condition is epistemologically objective but ontologically subjective.
- But it was conditional upon the objective existence of the factual circumstance, that is, that the termination was unfair, harsh or unjust.
- We can therefore say at the very least that there is no objective proof of the existence of a suicide tidal wave.
Synonyms factual, actual, real, empirical, verifiable, existing, manifest
2Grammar attributive Relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns used as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition. Example sentencesExamples - Two prepositions should not govern one objective unless there is an immediate connection between them.
nounəbˈdʒɛktɪvəbˈjektiv 1A thing aimed at or sought; a goal. the system has achieved its objective Example sentencesExamples - To help us achieve our objective of scoring goals, we have brought in Prince Nkosi.
- The key is to make players realise that the common goal can help them achieve individual objectives.
- A £4,500 payment in compensation is a big enough deterrent, we believe, to achieve our main objective of discouraging illegal filesharing.
- Overall, sustained efforts will be required in order to achieve the ambitious objective of the Strategy, which is to have a qualified and efficient civil service in place in the medium term.
- It remains our objective to seek commercial development of our lands that are non-core to our bloodstock auctioneering business, stated Mr Osborne.
- I also regularly have meetings with them to discuss objectives and goals.
- We just did not seem able to recruit the staff at York in the required numbers to achieve our objectives.
- A terrorist is a person or persons who instigate violence upon an innocent party in order to achieve an objective or goal.
- You have goals and objectives, but there are many different ways of going about achieving them.
- In war, the balance of protection lies squarely on one's own forces, whose security is not only important in human terms but in the context of achieving a military objective.
- It is possible to set learning objectives and plan activities that the teacher hopes will achieve the objective, but the outcome will be different for different students.
- It is a mechanism through which societies seek to achieve political objectives.
- Whenever we use cryptography it is important that we check that it is helping us achieve our desired objectives.
- The proposals achieve our basic objectives and it is a major first step forward.
- The report outlines a number of goals and objectives, all of which are no doubt very laudable.
- If one life is saved as a result of this campaign, we will achieve our objective.
- Is the proposed law or regulation the least intrusive way [i.e. least impact on rights] that the desired objective can be achieved?
- But the premier stressed that achieving the objective of drastically streamlining rural administration would take time.
- The process is the means through which they seek to attain their objectives.
- Only by uniting under one banner will pensioners ever achieve their objectives.
Synonyms aim, intention, purpose, target, goal, intent, object, end, end in view, grail, holy grail 2the objectiveGrammar The objective case. Example sentencesExamples - The root with the added o is the nominative, the objective adds an n after the o.
- The objective normally begins with a simple conventional declarative sentence known as the "kernel" which is then transformed into a complex structure to satisfy the objective by adding or rearranging transformational sentence components.
3The lens in a telescope or microscope nearest to the object observed. Example sentencesExamples - This shaped beam profile is imaged through the telescope system onto the back focal plane of the microscope objective.
- The pattern passes through the microscope objective onto the sample.
- He had introduced a field lens, a third lens between the objective lens and the eye-piece, which served to increase the field of view.
- Small holes were made in the film for the microscope objective lens and the micropipette.
- Laser power before entering the microscope objective was 120 W and the wavelength was 495 nm for all experiments shown.
Origin Early 17th century: from medieval Latin objectivus, from objectum (see object). |