sedentary

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/|/ˈsɛd.ən.tɹi/    美 /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. a sedentary person
    — Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
    — The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
  2. Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
  3. Not moving much; sitting around. usually
    — […]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]
  4. Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil. obsolete
    — Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentary earth That better might with far less compass move[…]
  5. Caused by long sitting. obsolete
    — till length of years And sedentary numbness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure.

词形变化

more sedentary comparative most sedentary superlative sedentaries plural

词汇关系

近义词
motionless torpid cessant dormant
反义词
migratory antonym(s) of
衍生词
endosedentary nonsedentary sedentarily sedentariness sedentarism sedentarization semisedentary unsedentary

词源

词源 1
From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).
词源 2
From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).
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