Intransitive
English
Etymology
From in- + transitive.
Transliteration Pronunciation
- Katakana: イントランサティヴ
- Anglo-Saxon runes: ᛁᚾᛏᚱᚫᚾᛋᛖᛏᛁᚠ
- Hangul: 인트랜서티브
Adjective
(not comparable)
- (grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a 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 transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
- (probability) Of a set of 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 intransitive dice and intransitive game.