- sed|en|tar|y
- sed|en|tar|y «SEHD uhn TEHR ee», adjective.1. used to sitting still much of the time; inactive: »
Sedentary people get little physical exercise.
2. that keeps one sitting still much of the time: »Bookkeeping is a sedentary occupation.
3. moving little and rarely.4. Zoology. a) living in one place, as English sparrows do; not migratory or moving far: »Pigeons are sedentary birds.
b) attached to one spot; not moving: »a sedentary mollusk.
c) spinning a web and lying in wait: »I discovered that this was no web-spinning, sedentary spider, but a wandering hunter (W. H. Hudson).
╂[< Latin sedentārius ultimately < sedēre to sit]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.