'Transitive' definitions:
Definition of 'transitive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning [ant: intransitive]
noun
A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical [syn: transitive verb, transitive verb form, transitive]
Definition of 'Transitive'
From: GCIDE
- Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]
- 1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Effected by transference of signification. [1913 Webster]
- By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. --Stewart. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. [1913 Webster] -- {Tran"si*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Tran"si*tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'transitive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- auxiliary,
- auxiliary verb,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- conjunctive,
- copula,
- copulative,
- correct,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- defective verb,
- deponent verb,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- finite verb,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- formal,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- impermanent,
- impersonal verb,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- infinitive,
- insubstantial,
- intransitive,
- intransitive verb,
- linking,
- linking verb,
- modal auxiliary,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- neuter verb,
- nominal,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- participial,
- passing,
- perishable,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- short-lived,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- verb,
- verb phrase,
- verbal,
- volatile
Words containing 'Transitive'
- Transit,
- Transition,
- Transitional,
- Transitively,
- Transitiveness,
- transitionally,
- transitivity,
- Lower transit,
- Surveyor's transit,
- Transit circle,
- Transit compass,
- Transit duty,
- Transit instrument,
- Transit trade,
- Transition rocks,
- Transition zone,
- Upper transit,
- Vernier transit,
- phase transition,
- public transit,
- rapid transit,
- transit declinometer,
- transit line,
- transit zone,
- transitive verb,
- aba transit number,
- doubly transitive verb,
- mass rapid transit,
- transitive verb form,
- doubly transitive verb form,
- Prime-vertical transit instrument