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TRANSITIVE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

Synonyms:

transitive; transitive verb; transitive verb form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("transitive" is a kind of...):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transitive"):

doubly transitive verb; doubly transitive verb form (a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning

Classified under:

Adjectives

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

transitiveness; transitivity (the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb)

transitivize (make transitive)

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