subjective
based on personal feelings or perspective
Roots
Other words with the ject root
- abject: miserable, degraded, or hopeless
- conjectural: based on guesswork rather than proof
- conjecture: a guess based on incomplete evidence
- dejected: sad and low-spirited
- eject: to throw out
- interject: to throw a remark into a conversation
- jettison: to throw away or discard
- project: to throw forward; plan or estimate
Subjective began near what lies under a person's mind; now it means shaped by the subject who sees or feels.
Taste is subjective, but the grammar error was not.