| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sed·en·tar·y |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s d n-tr  |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Characterized by or requiring much sitting: a sedentary job. 2. Accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise. 3. Remaining or living in one area, as certain birds; not migratory. 4. Attached to a surface and not moving freely, as a barnacle. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French sédentaire, from Old French, from Latin sedent rius, from sedns, sedent-, present participle of sedre, to sit. See sed- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | seden·tari·ly (-târ -l) —ADVERB
seden·tari·ness —NOUN
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