sedentary
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (anthropology, of a human population) Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.Synonyms: settled, non-migratory
2. (medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around.Examples: "[…]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[…]"Synonyms: chairborne, sitsomeusually
3. (obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquilExamples: "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."Synonyms: abeyantobsolete
4. (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.Examples: "till length of years And sedentary numbness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary