SEDENTARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sedentary mean? 

• SEDENTARY (adjective)
  The adjective SEDENTARY has 1 sense:

1. requiring sitting or little activity

  Familiarity information: SEDENTARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEDENTARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Requiring sitting or little activity

Context example:

forced by illness to lead a sedentary life

Similar:

inactive (not active physically or mentally)

 Context examples 

Researchers at UCLA wanted to see how sedentary behavior influences brain health, especially regions of the brain that are critical to memory formation.

(Sitting Is Bad for Your Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Nor was the time spent being sedentary associated with the volume and activity of BAT, they noted.

(Increasing the level of physical activity is found not to improve the functioning of brown adipose tissue, University of Granada)

However, the researchers did not identify any relationship between sedentary time or physical activity levels and glycaemic and lipid markers.

(A new study highlights the importance of undertaking physical activity of moderate–vigorous intensity during the early weeks of pregnancy, University of Granada)

Restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature, e.g., light house work, office work.

(ECOG Performance Status 1, NCI Thesaurus)

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet, serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading, and sedentary pursuits.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“If a person were to get up, take 10 steps, and sit down again, it appears that the effects of a sedentary lifestyle would be greatly reduced.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)

Besides measuring weight and waist circumference, the researchers monitored all participants’ insulin and blood sugar levels, resting metabolic rates (energy expenditures while sedentary), and adherence to the whole-grain diets using specialized tests.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

I had lived a placid, uneventful, sedentary existence all my days—the life of a scholar and a recluse on an assured and comfortable income.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Heart disease is the greatest killer in the world today, and it is widely accepted that our genes interact with traditional lifestyle risk factors, such as smoking, obesity and/or a sedentary life to promote an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

(Heart disease risk begins in the womb, University of Cambridge)

Catherine's disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious; but whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)