objective

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objectives

1) N-COUNT: usu with poss Your objective is what you are trying to achieve.

Our main objective was the recovery of the child safe and well...

His objective was to play golf and win.

Syn:

aim, goal

2) ADJ: ADJ n Objective information is based on facts.

He had no objective evidence that anything extraordinary was happening.

Syn:

factual

Derived words:

objectively ADV-GRADED usu ADV with v

We simply want to inform people objectively about events all over Yugoslavia.

objectivity [[t]ɒ̱bʤektɪ̱vɪti[/t]] N-UNCOUNT

The poll, whose objectivity is open to question, gave the party a 39% share of the vote.

3) ADJ-GRADED If someone is objective, they base their opinions on facts rather than on their personal feelings.

I believe that a journalist should be completely objective...

I would really like to have your objective opinion on this.

Syn:

impartial

Ant:

subjective

Derived words:

objectively ADV-GRADED usu ADV with v

Try to view situations more objectively, especially with regard to work.

objectivity N-UNCOUNT

The psychiatrist must learn to maintain an unusual degree of objectivity.