Definition of Intransitive verb

1. Noun. A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object.

Exact synonyms: Intransitive, Intransitive Verb Form
Generic synonyms: Verb

Definition of Intransitive verb

1. Noun. (grammar) An action verb not taking a direct object. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intransitive Verb

intransgressible
intransient
intransigeance
intransigeances
intransigeant
intransigeantly
intransigeants
intransigence
intransigences
intransigency
intransigent
intransigently
intransigents
intransitive-verb
intransitive verb (current term)
intransitive verb form
intransitive verbs
intransitively
intransitiveness
intransitivise
intransitivity
intransitivize
intransmissible
intransmutability
intransmutable
intransparent
intrant
intrants
intranuclear

Literary usage of Intransitive verb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"30, col. I. •+• Icel. visna, to wither. ß. This is an intransitive verb, with formative -n-, .... intransitive verb ..."

2. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"When an intransitive verb requires a noon-word to complete its meaning, the noun-word ... The meaning of a transitive as well as an intransitive verb may be ..."

3. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1874)
"An adive-intransitive verb is a verb that expresses an action which has no person ... An active-intransitive verb, followed by a preposition and its object, ..."

4. English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently by Roswell Chamberlain Smith (1847)
"Л neuter or intransitive verb, by tne addition of a preposition, ... How can an intransitive verb become la resemble, strictly speaking, a transi- ' Meaning ..."

5. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1873)
"An active-intransitive verb is a verb that expresses an action which has no ... An active-intransitive verb, followed by a preposition and its object, ..."

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