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adj. Characterized by or requiring much sitting: a sedentary job.

adj. Accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise.

adj. Remaining or living in one area, as certain birds; not migratory.

adj. Attached to a surface and not moving freely, as a barnacle.

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

adj. Not moving much; sitting around.

adj. inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil

adj. Caused by long sitting.

adj. Accustomed to sit much or long.

adj. Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting.

adj. Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.

adj. Caused by long sitting.

adj. Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object.

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.

n. A sedentary person; one of sedentary habits.

n. A member of the Sedentariæ; a sedentary spider.

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.

adj. requiring sitting or little activity

"In general it appears that a man or a woman whose occupation is what we call sedentary, who is without vigorous exercise and does but little hard muscular work, needs much less than the man at hard manual labor, and that the brain worker needs comparatively little of carbohydrates or fats."

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