objective

Meanings

• the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
• the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
• 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"
• emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, 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"

Synonyms

accusative, aim, documentary, nonsubjective, object, object glass, object lens, objective lens, target