The meaning of OBJECTIVE is expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.

OBJECTIVE definition: something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a fund-raising drive. See examples of objective used in a …

Your objective is what you are trying to achieve. Our main objective was the recovery of the child safe and well.

Definition of objective noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

safe, secure - Safe and secure, now nearly synonymous, used to be more different; secure was subjective—man's own sense of the absence of danger—while safe was objective, the fact of such …

I try to be objective when I criticize someone's work. (Definition of objective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Various understandings of this distinction have evolved through the …

being the object or goal of one's efforts or actions. unbiased: an objective opinion. intent upon or dealing with things external to the mind rather than with thoughts or feelings, as a person or a book. …

There are 18 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word objective, six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Determined by and emphasizing the features and characteristics of the object, or thing dealt with, rather than the thoughts and feelings of the artist, writer, or speaker. An objective painting or description.