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===Adjective=== ''(not comparable)'' # (''grammar, of a verb'') Not [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive transitive]: not having, or not taking, a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/direct_object direct object]. # (''grammar, informal'') Describing a verb that does not act on anything; the action stays with the subject and goes nowhere. In "she sleeps" or "he runs", nothing is being slept or run; the verb is '''intransitive'''. # (''rare'') Not [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive transitive] or passing further; kept; detained. # (''probability'') Of a set of [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dice dice]: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_dice intransitive dice] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_game intransitive game]. ====Synonyms==== * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neuter neuter] * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nontransitive nontransitive] ====Antonyms==== * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive transitive] ====Derived terms==== * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitive_preposition intransitive preposition] * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitive_verb intransitive verb] * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitively intransitively] * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitiveness intransitiveness] * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitivity intransitivity] * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitivization intransitivization] * [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitivize intransitivize]
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