sedentary

Definition

Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

Etymology

From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“I sit, I am seated”).

Example Sentences

• "The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans."
• "[…]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[…]"