subjective

In a sentence

Six example sentences with subjective, each labelled with its topic.

• Judging the contest stayed subjective: one juror loved the grainy portraits that another dismissed as sloppy and underexposed.

  Photography

• Heat tolerance is entirely subjective, so the menu marks chillies with symbols rather than promising any diner a fixed level.

  Cooking

• The seminar argued that beauty is subjective, since two people can stand before one painting and disagree without either being mistaken.

  Philosophy

• Pain ratings are subjective, so the study asked each volunteer to mark a scale rather than describe the ache.

  Psychology

• Whether the second movement drags is subjective, and the two critics at the premiere disagreed in print for a month.

  Music

• A subjective test asks what the defendant actually believed, not what a careful person would have believed.

  Law

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More Academic words

• outcome
• compute
• coherent
• version
• repertoire
• rigorous
• exploited
• clarify
• reinforce
• coordination
• affecting
• ambiguous