meaning of intransitive
1. Not passing farther; kept; detained.
2. 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; as, an intransitive verb, e. g. , the bird flies; the dog runs.
3. designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
Related Words
intransitive | intransitive verb | intransitive verb form | intransitively | intransitiveness |
