| Intransitive 1. (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained. 2. (a.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs. Thesaurus Entries adjectival, adverbial, attributive, auxiliary, auxiliary verb, conjunctive, copula, copulative, correct, defective verb, deponent verb, finite verb, formal, functional, glossematic, grammatic, impersonal verb, infinitive, intransitive verb, linking, linking verb, modal auxiliary, neuter verb, nominal, participial, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic, transitive, verb, verb phrase, verbal |