Accustomed to sit much, or to pass most of the time in a sitting posture; as a sedentary man. Students, taylors and women are sedentary persons.

Requiring much sitting; as a sedentary occupation or employment.

Passed for the most part in sitting; as a sedentary life.

Inactive; motionless; sluggish; as the sedentary earth. The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss sedentary nature.