SEDENTARY
\sˈɛdəntəɹi], \sˈɛdəntəɹi], \s_ˈɛ_d_ə_n_t_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of SEDENTARY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.
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Caused by long sitting.
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Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
By Oddity Software
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Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.
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Caused by long sitting.
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Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
By Noah Webster.
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Accustomed to pass much time in a sitting posture; marked by, or requiring, much sitting; as, sedentary work.
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Sedentarily.
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Sedentariness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Sedentarily.
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Sedentariness.
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Sitting much: passed chiefly in sitting: requiring much sitting: inactive.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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