intransitive

1. 1.

   a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

   Synonymsintransitive verbintransitive verb form

   Broaderverb

1. 1.

   designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object

   Antonymstransitive

   grammar

Other forms of intransitive

plural

intransitives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intransitive

What does intransitive mean?

intransitive means "a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intransitive?

intransitive has 4 syllables: in-tran-si-tive. The stress falls on "tran".

What is another word for intransitive?

Close synonyms include intransitive verb, intransitive verb form. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of intransitive?

The recorded antonyms are transitive.

Is intransitive a common word?

intransitive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.