Many people lead a sedentary life, which can lead to weight gain.
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Sedentary
//ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i//
Synonyms for "sedentary" (71 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Adjective(14 words)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حَضَرِيّ adj (not moving, not migratory)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- oturaq adj (not moving, not migratory)
Belarusian
1 entries- асе́лы adj (not moving, not migratory)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заседнал adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- непрелетен adj (not moving, not migratory)
- седящ adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- уседнал adj (not moving, not migratory)
Catalan
2 entries- sedentari adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedentari adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 定居的 adj (not moving, not migratory)
Czech
2 entries- sedavý adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- usedlý adj (not moving, not migratory)
Dutch
3 entries- sedentair adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedentair adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- stilzittend adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Finnish
3 entries- istuma adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- paikallaan pysyvä adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- vähän liikkuva adj (not moving, not migratory)
French
2 entries- sédentaire adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sédentaire adj (not moving much; sitting around)
German
3 entries- ortsgebunden adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sesshaft adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sitzend adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Greek
1 entries- καθιστικός adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Hungarian
2 entries- helyhez kötött adj (not moving, not migratory)
- ülő adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Icelandic
2 entries- hreyfingarleysis adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- kyrrsetu adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Ido
2 entries- sedentaria adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedentaria adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Indonesian
3 entries- sambil duduk adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedenter adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedenter adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Irish
1 entries- neamhaistreach adj (not moving, not migratory)
Italian
1 entries- sedentario adj (not moving, not migratory)
Kazakh
1 entries- отырықшы adj (not moving, not migratory)
Korean
3 entries- 앉은 adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- 앉은뱅이 adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- 정착성 adj (not moving, not migratory)
Norwegian
1 entries- stillesittende adj (not moving, not migratory)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sedat adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- stillesittende adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Polish
2 entries- osiadły adj (not moving, not migratory)
- siedzący adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Portuguese
2 entries- sedentário adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedentário adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Romanian
2 entries- sedentar adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedentar adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Russian
3 entries- малоподви́жный adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- осе́длый adj (not moving, not migratory)
- сидя́чий adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Spanish
2 entries- sedentario adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedentario adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Swedish
1 entries- stillasittande adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Telugu
1 entries- కూర్చున్నట్టు చేసేపని adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Turkish
4 entries- durağan adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedanter adj (not moving, not migratory)
- sedanter adj (not moving much; sitting around)
- tembel adj (not moving much; sitting around)
Ukrainian
1 entries- осі́лий adj (not moving, not migratory)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.
Source: tatoeba (6395955)
A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages...chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body. Chess has acquired a high reputation as being a means to discipline the mind, but persons engaged in sedentary occupations should never practice this cheerless game; they require out-door exercises--not this sort of mental gladiatorship.
Source: tatoeba (6395974)
I need a lot more protein than a sedentary person.
Source: tatoeba (6676755)
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