transitive

Adjective B2 – Upper-Intermediate

Describing a verb that takes a direct object, or a relation in which a property holding between A and B and between B and C must also hold between A and C.

""Kick" is a transitive verb because it needs an object, as in "she kicked the ball.""

In grammar it applies to verbs; in maths and logic it describes relations like "greater than."

Antonyms

intransitive