intransitive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.

   The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."

2. 2
   adj

   Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.

   1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further.

3. 3
   noun

   An intransitive verb.

   This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).

4. 4
   adj

   designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object

5. 5
   noun

   a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

6. 6
   adj

   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.

Etymology

From in- + transitive.