sedentary

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   requiring sitting or little activity

   forced by illness to lead a sedentary life

2. 2
   adj

   Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

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

3. 3
   adj

   Not moving much; sitting around.

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

4. 4
   adj

   Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.

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

5. 5
   adj

   Caused by long sitting.

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

6. 6
   noun

   a sedentary person

   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.

7. 7
   adj

   Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.

Etymology

From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).