Skip to main content

sedentary

/sed-n-ter-ee/US // ˈsɛd nˌtɛr i //UK // (ˈsɛdəntərɪ, -trɪ) //

久坐,久坐不动,久坐的,久坐的人

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
    • : accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
    • : Chiefly Zoology. abiding in one place; not migratory.pertaining to animals that move about little or are permanently attached to something, as a barnacle.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Back pain can often be the predictable result of a sedentary lifestyle that more and more Americans have, so it may not take much movement to increase strength in the core and back enough to relieve pain.

  • Some might argue that the imaging signs could be chalked up to differences between the hearts of competitive athletes and those of the more sedentary.

  • I know online education may seem an awful imposition on parents of younger children particularly – bloodless and breathless, as well as overly sedentary.

  • This time, however, we distilled the plasma from runners and injected it into sedentary litter mates over the course of a month.

  • After 30 days of giving them the drug, Evans and his team put the sedentary mice on a treadmill.

  • That reserve gets smaller with sedentary lifestyles, and with age.

  • He will spend the rest of his commute sedentary, and she upright.

  • Kids today, just like adults, are more sedentary, glued to videogames and every tech gadget with a screen.

  • The doctors said it was as strong as an ox, considering he was so sedentary.

  • Americans spend twice as much time in cars as in the 1970s and average more than 26 hours per week of sedentary entertainment.

  • She grants the enjoyment of sedentary pursuits to those to whom she has denied hardier pleasures.

  • I now begin to despair, and am almost inclined to think that your sedentary life has rivetted your chains, and cut off your wings.

  • A slightly sallow tinge under its sudden bloom told how Rose had suffered from the sedentary life.

  • A waiter conjured a vacant table and chairs from nowhere, in the midst of the sedentary throng.

  • The sedentary life told on his health, and he obstinately declined the medicines his mother sent him.