Sedentary

What do we mean by sedentary?

Characterized by or requiring much sitting. adjective

Accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise. adjective

Remaining or living in one area; not migratory. adjective

Attached or rooted; sessile. adjective

In geology, remaining upon the rock from which it has been formed by disintegration: said of soil or loose rock material.

In intern. law, said of the private property of a neutral which has remained on belligerent soil or of a neutral vessel in foreign waters. See the extract.

Sitting; being or continuing in a sitting posture; working habitually in a sitting posture.

Hence— Fixed; settled; permanent; remaining in the same place.

Inactive; idle; sluggish: as, a sedentary life.

In zoology

Abiding in one place: not migratory, as a bird.

. Fixed in a tube; not errant, as a worm; belonging to the Sedentaria.

Spinning a web and lying in wait, as a spider; belonging to the Sedentariæ.

Affixed; attached; not free-swimming, as an infusorian, a rotifer, polyp, cirriped, mollusk, ascidian, etc.; specifically, belonging to the Sedentaria.

Encysted and motionless or quiescent, as a protozoan. Compare resting-spore.

Accustomed to sit much, or to pass most of the time in a sitting posture; hence, secluded.

Characterized by or requiring continuance in a sitting posture: as, a sedentary profession; the sedentary life of a scholar.

Resulting from inactivity or much sitting.

A sedentary person; one of sedentary habits. noun

A member of the Sedentariæ; a sedentary spider. noun

A sedentary person

Adj. inactive or not moving Urban Dictionary

Very high/intoxicated due to ingesting and/or inhaling narcotics. Urban Dictionary

The opposite of sexually active, somewhat sexually inactive, characterized by little sexual exercise. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sedentary:
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Words that rhyme with sedentary:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe sedentary:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective sedentary:
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Words that sound like sedentary:
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