Intransitive Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-trănsĭ-tĭv, -zĭ-
A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. intransitive-verb
  2. intransitive verb form
Designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. transitive

Words Related to Intransitive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. attributive
  2. adverbial
  3. stative
  4. copula
  5. prepositional
  6. postposition
  7. direct-object
  8. interrogative
  9. verb-phrase
  10. unaccusative

Intransitive Sentence Examples

  • An active or causal verb requires before it the instrumental instead of the nominative case, which goes only before a neuter or intransitive verb.

  • Thus intransitive bases seem to have begun only with soft consonants, and it is doubtful whether the parent tongue possessed hard consonants at all; while transitive bases were formed by hardening of the initial consonants and at the same time pronouncing the words in a higher tone, and these two latter changes are supposed to have been indicated by a prefix to the base-word.

  • In the sentence, The horse runs fast there is no object at all, so run is an intransitive verb.

  • Experiment 2 used potentially intransitive verbs in sentences like The boat floated down the river (and) sank.

  • And then 3 vi (verb intransitive) meaning verbs which do not take a direct object.

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