sedentary
/ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
adj
Of a human population, living in a fixed geographical location.
noun
A sedentary person.
Example Sentences
- "The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans."
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- "[…]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[…]"
- "There is, however, a gap between the athletic games that were played by large groups of men and the sedentary games that are confined to a few players, which I find it difficult to bridge."
- "Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentary earth That better might with far less compass move[…]"
Etymology
From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/
- British English: /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/