sedentary
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5.6
- adjective
- /ˈsɛd.ən.ˌtɛr.i/
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sedentario
- Many workers in offices lead a sedentary lifestyle, spending most of their day sitting at a desk.
- sedentary behavior
- sedentary lifestyle
- sedentary activity
And being sedentary is an independent risk factor for cancer.
- And being sedentary is an independent risk factor for cancer.
- Now listen, I would rather you exercise hard than be sedentary and never work out at all.
- We do less movement in time, we become more and more sedentary.
- You know, my options are medication, carbs, getting fat and being sedentary.
- You know, things like that that I, I couldn't appreciate before because I'm, I'm sedentary and I can't move.
- But we have to remember that this is looking at populations that are mostly sedentary.
- And, and they found that the runners have disability scores that are half of those of the sedentary controls.
- And girls are sweet and sedentary and boys are rowdy and mean.
- So no sleep, I'm going to be sedentary, I'm going to have no friends.
Examples
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Have you had a look at the impact of sitting or being sedentary on longevity?
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And that's where we get the first sedentary communities, which means they they stayed in the same place all year long.
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We have very sedentary kind of jobs.
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And we as a species just, we're not meant for the level of sedentary life that we lead.
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Now listen, I would rather you exercise hard than be sedentary and never work out at all.
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And being sedentary is an independent risk factor for cancer.
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So what we know about aging has been what we know about sedentary living.
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When given the option between a physical activity and a sedentary activity, personnel believed children chose the latter.
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So even if you are sedentary right now, that is doable.
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And what this did was it allowed people for the first time to live a settled, sedentary life in small groups and small villages and towns.
Synonyms
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Not moving and not showing much physical or mental energy
Antonyms
How Sedentary
Surface Forms
Morphology
sedentary = sedent + ary
The suffix '-ary' is a productive adjective-forming ending, but the root 'sedent' is a Latin combining form (not a standalone English root like 'sit'), so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from familiar English components.
Etymology
Sedentary comes from the Latin verb sedere, which means 'to sit', so a helpful way to remember it is the English word 'sit'. A sedentary lifestyle or job is one with a lot of sitting and little physical activity.