subjective
Syllables: sub·ject·ive/səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/
subjective adjective: formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
Adjective
subjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what...2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
- Lacking in reality or substance.
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- Mind-dependent.
- Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN
Noun
subjective (plural subjectives)
- The subjective case.
- A noun or pronoun in the subjective case.
subjective meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
subjective in Hindi
- based upon subjective feelings or intuition
- आत्मनिष्ठ ātmaniṣṭh
subjective in Tamil
- அகஉணர்வுடைய, அகவயமான, ஒருவரின் அகம்சார்ந்த, உள்ளாக்கு, அக எண்ண, உணர்ச்சி சார்ந்த
subjective in Marathi
- व्यक्तिनिष्ठ, व्यक्तिपरक
subjective in Urdu
- subjective
- ذہنی zahnī
More languagesFewer languages
- subjective in Bengali
- বিষয়ী, আত্মবাদী, মানসিক, আত্মপ্রকাশক
- subjective in Telugu
- ఆత్మాశ్రయ, సబ్జెక్టివ్
- subjective in Malayalam
- ആത്മനിഷ്ഠമായ, കർത്തൃനിഷ്ഠ, വ്യക്ത്യുന്മുഖം, വെെയക്തികം
- subjective in Kannada
- ಅನಿಸಿಕೆಯ, ನನಸಲ್ಲದ, ಆಂತರಿಕ, ಮನೋಗ್ರಾಹ್ಯವಾದ
- subjective in Gujarati
- વ્યક્તિલક્ષી, વ્યક્તિનિષ્ઠ
- subjective in Odia
- ବିଷଯ଼ଗତ
Examples of subjective in a sentence
- The terms of the contract inadvertently left certain unbound aspects to subjective interpretation.
- Signs of disease are objective, whereas symptoms are subjective.
- It held that subjective distress alone does not constitute legal harm.
Antonyms of subjective
Forms of subjective
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more subjective |
| superlative | most subjective |
| Noun | |
| plural | subjectives |
Origin of subjective
From Latin subiectīvus, equivalent to subject + -ive.
Words formed from subjective
- antisubjective
- intersubjective
- intrasubjective
- metasubjective
- nonsubjective
- semisubjective
- subjectivation
- subjective case
- subjectively
- subjectiveness
- subjective synonym
- subjective time
- subjective tinnitus
- subjectivism
- subjectivist
- subjectivity
- subjectivization
- subjectivize
- syndrome of subjective doubles
- transsubjective
- unsubjective
Phrases with subjective
Words that rhyme with subjective
- projective
- effective
- objective
- prospective
- reflective
- collective
- connective
- defective
- directive
- respective
- selective
- injective
28 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- detective
- elective
- irrespective
- perfective
- retrospective
- affective
- bijective
- corrective
- erective
- ineffective
- inflective
- intellective
- intersubjective
- protective
- refective
- advective
- convective
- deflective
- ejective
- imperfective
- infective
- inspective
- introspective
- overprotective
- rejective
- surjective
- unreflective
- unselective
Questions about subjective
- What does subjective mean?
- Subjective means formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- What is subjective in Hindi?
- Subjective in Hindi is आत्मनिष्ठ (ātmaniṣṭh). See Subjective meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is subjective?
- Subjective can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce subjective?
- Subjective is pronounced /səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/.
Words near subjective in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: subjective (page history and authors); subjective (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subjective (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ذہنی (Urdu) (page history and authors); subjective (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subjective (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); subjective (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); subjective (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subjective (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); subjective (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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