Definitions
Involving much sitting or little physical movement.
Word origin
From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).
Used in a sentence
“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[…]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Mostly seated”9 letters
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