Sedentary

/ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/ · adjective

Meaning

Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
2. (anthropology, of a human population) Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
3. (medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around.
4. (obsolete) Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.
5. (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
6. a sedentary person

Example Sentences

The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.

[…]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]

[…]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…]

There is, however, a gap between the athletic games that were played by large groups of men and the sedentary games that are confined to a few players, which I find it difficult to bridge.

Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentary earth That better might with far less compass move[…]

The Soul, considered abstractedly from its Passions, is of a remiss and sedentary Nature, slow in its Resolves, and languishing in its Executions.

till length of years And sedentary numbness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure.

Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer.

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• more sedentary
• most sedentary
• sedentaries

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