Sekirov Dictionary

sedentary

UK /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/US /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/

adjective 5
noun 1
forms 3

adjective5

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Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
- The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
Of a human population, living in a fixed geographical location.
•
Of a job, lifestyle, etc., not moving much; sitting around; inactive.
- […]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…] — 1765
•
Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.
- Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentary earth That better might with far less compass move[…] — 1667
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(no longer used) Caused by long sitting.
- till length of years And sedentary numbness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure. — 1671

noun1

•
A sedentary person.
- With the decline and eventual downfall of the south, it was their relationship with the Arab sedentaries of the north which assumed greater importance — 2005

forms

sedentaries · more sedentary · most sedentary

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