transitive verb form

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstransitive verbtransitive

   Broaderverb

   Narrowerdoubly transitive verb

Questions about transitive verb form

What does transitive verb form mean?

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

What is another word for transitive verb form?

Close synonyms include transitive verb, 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 form a common word?

transitive verb form 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.