An intransitive verb does not have an object. transitive. an intransitive verb has a subject but no object. For example, in the sentence 'they arrived', 'arrived' is intransitive. Intransitive verbs are marked in this dictionary transitive
A verb that can take no syntactic object, like laugh, as in "He laughed loudly", or "She laughed at his remark" Contrast bitransitive and transitive See also subcategorization
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
In dynamical systems theory, a system is said to be intransitive if different sets of initial conditions evolve to more than one alternative resultant state Compare to transitive and almost intransitive See Lorenz (1979)