Intransitive

What do we mean by intransitive?

Designating a verb or verb construction that does not require or cannot take a direct object, as snow or sleep. adjective

An intransitive verb. noun

In grammar, not expressing an action that passes immediately over to an object; not taking a direct object: said of verbs that require a preposition before their object, or take one only indirectly, or in the manner of a dative: as, to stand on the ground; to swim in the water; to run away.

Not transitive, in the logical or mathematical sense.

In grammar, a verb which does not properly take after it an object, as sit, fall, run, lie. noun

In grammar: Noting the case which expresses the subject of the intransitive verb or the object of the transitive verb.

In Eskimo gram., noting the thing possessed. Also called objective.

Not passing farther; kept; detained. adjective

Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense. adjective

Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object. adjective

Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained. adjective

A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object noun

Designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object adjective

(grammar, of a verb) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object

Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained

Words that are spelled similarly to intransitive:
intransitive, transitive, intensitive, ditransitive, intransitivize, nontransitive, intransitivise.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word intransitive:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective intransitive:
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Words that sound like intransitive:
intransitive, in transit, interoceptive, intensity, entranced, insensitive, interactive, entrancing, interceptive, contrastive.