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sedentary

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Is sedentary a Scrabble word?

Yes, sedentary is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of sedentary?

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

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "sedentary"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "sedentary"?

Scrabble
13 points
S1
E1
D2
E1
N1
T1
A1
R1
Y4
Words With Friends
13 points
S1
E1
D2
E1
N2
T1
A1
R1
Y4

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