Transitive
English
Adjective
Transitive (not comparable)
- Making a transit or passage.
- Affected by transference of signification.
- (grammar): Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.)
- (set theory): Of a relation R on a set S, such that if xRy and yRz, then xRz for all members x, y and z of S (that is, if the relation applies from one element to a second, and from the second to a third, then it also applies from the first element to the third).
Antonyms
- (making a transit or passage):
- (affected by transference of signification):
- (grammar): intransitive
- (set theory): intransitive, nontransitive
Thesaurus
adjectival, adverbial, attributive, auxiliary, auxiliary verb, brittle, capricious, changeable, conjunctive, copula, copulative, correct, corruptible, deciduous, defective verb, deponent verb, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, finite verb, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, formal, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, functional, glossematic, grammatic, impermanent, impersonal verb, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, infinitive, insubstantial, intransitive, intransitive verb, linking, linking verb, modal auxiliary, momentary, mortal, mutable, neuter verb, nominal, nondurable, nonpermanent, participial, passing, perishable, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, short-lived, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, verb, verb phrase, verbal, volatile
