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say it: uhb-JEK-tiv
objective is an adjective and noun meaning "undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena". It carries 6 recorded senses.
undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
“an objective appraisal”
“objective evidence”
serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
“objective case”
“accusative endings”
grammar
emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation
“objective art”
belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
“objective benefits”
“an objective example”
“there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind”
the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for objective come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.