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untransitive

untransitive adjective: not transitive.

Adjective

untransitive (not comparable)

  1. Not transitive.
    • The attempt at a fundamental structural relation between transitive and untransitive verbs yields the following structural relations based on mereological features […]2010, Patrick Brandt, Marco Garcia García, Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, page 32

Origin of untransitive

From un- + transitive.

Questions about untransitive

What does untransitive mean?
Untransitive means not transitive.
What part of speech is untransitive?
Untransitive is an adjective.

Words near untransitive in the dictionary

  1. untransgressive
  2. untransient
  3. untransinfected
  4. untransistorized
  5. untransitable
  6. untransitive
  7. untransitory
  8. untranslatability
  9. untranslatable
  10. untranslatableness
  11. untranslatables

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