transitive

Speech parts

1. transitive - Noun

2. transitive - Adjective

Meaning

Having the power of making a transit, or passage.

Effected by transference of signification.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

intermediate active transition passing flying temporary unstable short-lived verbal temporal volatile transitional mortal transient fading
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Antonyms

intransitive fixed permanent firm lasting sustained
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Hyponyms

doubly transitive verb doubly transitive verb form

Phrases with the word

transitive verb form transitive verbs

Anagrams

revisitant

Examples

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object. William Ames

Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through... the transitive nightfall of diamonds. Robert Hunter

On reflection, it is not even clear if military power is a transitive relationship. Until we have defined more explicitly how we are going to measure military power, it is not clear that if A is more powerful than B, and B more powerful than C, that A is more powerful than C. Andrew Marshall

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change. Gordon W. Allport

Accusative vs. partitive case opposition of the object used with transitive verbs creates a telicity contrast, just as in Finnish. Source: Internet

Active and passive pairs can be illustrated with the transitive verb haki (to chop). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

transitionist transitionless transitionlessness transitive animate transitive closure transitive dependency