Definition:
- (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained.
- (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.
Compare intransitive with other words:
intransitive vs. intransitively
intransitive vs. transitive