Definitions for: Transitive


[adj] (grammar) designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning



Webster (1913) Definition: Tran"si*tive, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
See Transient.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
--Bacon.

2. Effected by transference of signification.

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.

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. --
Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. -- Tran"si*tive*ness, n.

Antonyms: intransitive

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