- 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.
- characterized by or requiring a sitting position
- tending to sit about without taking much exercise
- (of animals) moving about very little, usually because of attachment to a rock or other surface
- (of animals) not migratory