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Definition
influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)In grammar, subjective can refer to a noun or pronoun inflection that indicates the relationship between terms in a sentence. For example, in "She ran home," she is the subject of the verb ran and the sentence is in the subjective (aka nominative) case.
- a subjective judgment
- Existing evaluations are largely subjective. The union wants objective criteria, so our employees will know how to succeed and will not need to worry about bias.
- I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.J. B. S. Haldane
- Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne Of Green Gables
- Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences.Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
- Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
- Zillah's lintscapes are termed "subjective,"Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- Did he not realize how subjective Alice's visions were.'Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- One quality of such places as I am trying to define is that a very large part of them is personal and subjective.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- In truth, categorizing talents is a subjective, haphazard business; every talent is unique, never exactly the same thing twice.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- Otherwise you're being subjective in a way that is not at all fair to the accused.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- The market for football players was rooted in subjective judgments and ancient prejudices.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- But something was missing in my imaginative efforts; my flights of imagination were too subjective, too lacking in reference to social action.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- Hegel said that 'truth is subjective/ thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
- The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
- Then I looked at Wolf Larsen, but there was nothing subjective about his state of consciousness.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- All this irritation is purely subjective.George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
- "Murderis a subjective term," Maggie hissed.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host