Thesaurus: objective

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1. a. Of or pertaining to an object.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. n. The objective case.
5. n. An object glass. See under Object, n.
6. n. Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.
7. adj. undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
8. adj. serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
9. adj. emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation
10. adj. belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
11. n. the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
12. n. the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed