Transitive Synonyms and Antonyms

trănsĭ-tĭv, -zĭ-
A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. transitive-verb
  2. transitive verb form
Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. intransitive
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Transitive Sentence Examples

  • You will find that some verbs can be either transitive or intransitive depending on the context of their sentence.

  • 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.

  • The verbal predicate of a transitive action became the dominant feature of its inner structure.

  • Never let a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

  • Page 387, fourth paragraph, lines 3-4 The earlier query did not lose it's joins predicate tho transitive closure - so.. .

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