Usually means: Lifestyle involving little physical activity.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sedentary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sedentary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sedentary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sedentary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sedentary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sedentary, sedentary: Wordnik
  7. sedentary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sedentary: Wiktionary
  9. sedentary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sedentary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sedentary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sedentary: Dictionary.com
  13. sedentary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sedentary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sedentary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sedentary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sedentary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sedentary: Rhymezone
  19. sedentary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sedentary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sedentary: Free Dictionary
  22. sedentary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sedentary: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. sedentary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sedentary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. sedentary: Medical dictionary
  4. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. sedentary: Natural History Terms
  3. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
adjective:  (anthropology, of a human population) Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
adjective:  (medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around.
adjective:  (obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
adjective:  (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
noun:  a sedentary person

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