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adjective
- 1. (of a person) tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive: "we all walk a certain amount every day even if we are sedentary"
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Sedentary means involving little exercise or physical activity, or used to refer to organisms that do not move much. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, synonyms, and usage with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Sedentary means not migratory, doing or requiring much sitting, or permanently attached. Learn the etymology, examples, and synonyms of sedentary from the online dictionary.
Sedentary definition: characterized by or requiring a sitting posture. See examples of SEDENTARY used in a sentence.
Sedentary means involving little exercise or physical activity, or used to refer to organisms that do not move much. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and its usage in sentences from various sources.
Sedentary means someone who sits down a lot and does not take much exercise, or a job that involves sitting down. It also means not migratory or fixed to one spot, especially for animals. See synonyms, pronunciation, collocations and sentences.
Sedentary means spending a lot of time sitting down and not moving, or staying and living in the same place or area. Learn how to use this adjective with pictures, pronunciation, synonyms and more.
Sedentary means sitting a lot and refers to a person or job that is not very physically active. If you have a sedentary job, you might want to stand up and stretch every hour or so, and if your doctor says that you are too sedentary, she means that it would be healthier for you to exercise more.