transitive verb

1. 1.

   a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

   Synonymstransitive verb formtransitive

   Broaderverb

   Narrowerdoubly transitive verb

Questions about transitive verb

What does transitive verb mean?

transitive verb means "a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical".

What is another word for transitive verb?

Close synonyms include transitive verb form, transitive. 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.

Is transitive verb a common word?

transitive verb 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.