sedentary

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not moving

   Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

   • The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
2. 2

   Living in a fixed geographical location

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

3. 3

   Not moving much

   Not moving much; sitting around.

   • […]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.
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   1. 4

      Inactive

      Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      Caused by long sitting.

      • till length of years And sedentary numbness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure.
   3. 6

      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;

The neighborhood

• synonymmotionless
• synonymtorpid
• synonymstationary
• synonymcessant
• synonymdormant
• synonyminactive
• antonymmigratoryantonym(s) of “living in a fixed geographical location”
• antonymantonym(s) of