sedentary
Speech parts
1. sedentary - Noun
2. sedentary - Adjective
3. sedentary - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.
Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life.
Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.
Caused by long sitting.
Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
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forced by illness to lead a sedentary life
Agricultural life afforded securities that pastoral life could not, and sedentary farming populations grew faster than nomadic.
As the Banu Halali tribes took control of the plains, the local sedentary people were forced to take refuge in the mountains; in prosperous central and northern Ifriqiya farming gave way to pastoralism.
According to a 2017 study published in the journal Preventive Medicine that analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey from 2003-2004 and 2005-2006, 19-year-olds spent as much time being inactive and sedentary as 60-year-olds.
As the Natufians had become dependent on wild cereals in their diet, and a sedentary way of life had begun among them, the climatic changes associated with the Younger Dryas are thought to have forced people to develop farming.
Another resident, Mohan Lal, however, said that lack of connectivity and remote location of a hamlet can sometimes also lead to a more sedentary lifestyle as the inhabitants do not move around freely.