Definitions for transitive

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transitive tran·si·tive

Spelling: [tran-si-tiv, -zi-]

IPA: /ˈtræn sɪ tɪv, -zɪ-/

Transitive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 691 anagrams from letters in transitive (aeiinrsttv).

Definitions for transitive

noun

1. Grammar. transitive verb.

adjective

1. Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
2. characterized by or involving transition; transitional; intermediate.
3. passing over to or affecting something else; transeunt.
4. Mathematics. noting a relation in which one element in relation to a second element and the second in relation to a third element implies the first element is in relation to the third element, as the relation “less than or equal to.”.

Origin of transitive

1550-60; Late Latin trānsitīvus, equivalent to Latin trānsit(us) (see transition) + -īvus -ive

Examples for transitive

God, therefore, is the immanent, but not the transitive cause of all things.

The government of all transitive verbs is necessarily objective.

The beauty of Chinese verbs is that they are all transitive or intransitive at pleasure.

Conscious life, we find, is a continuous adjustment; each of its moments is a "transitive state."

The transitive verb has no subject; the noun nothing to govern it.

A verb which is transitive in one of its senses may be intransitive in another.

If incomplete, determine whether they are transitive or copulative verbs.

Incolere is transitive, as to inhabit; habitare, intransitive, as to dwell.

In the transitive state of politics, 'that is the question.'

Lay, which is a transitive verb, should not be confused with lie.