sedentary

CEFRC1

/ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/

adjective

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adjective
Spending much time sitting and doing little physical activity.
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adjective
Extra detail
Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.

Examples

I need a lot more protein than a sedentary person.
Many people lead a sedentary life, which can lead to weight gain.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Not moving much; sitting around.
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.

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The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
[…]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…]
[…]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]

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[…]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]
1765 [1738], Bishop William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, page 220
[…]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…]
1844 October 3, Benjamin Disraeli, The Acquirement of Knowledge, An address delivered to the members of the Manchester Athenæum
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.
1998, Effect of acute exercise on skin potential in sedentaries and trained athletes.
The non-sedentaries rather do not without grain or rice, but the sedentaries have, in Wirth's table, not much less sheep and goats than the non-sedentaries. That is a reason to suppose that the sedentaries can cope without the non-sedentaries
2001, Jaarbericht, Issues 35-38, page 99
With the decline and eventual downfall of the south, it was their relationship with the Arab sedentaries of the north which assumed greater importance;
2005, The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 1, Volume 2, page 19

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Origin

adjective

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

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adjective

Office workers often lead a blank life because they sit at desks all day.