It's the word of the day for October 21st.
Today's word is sedentary, spelled S-E-D-E-N-T-A-R-Y.
Sedentary is an adjective.
Something described as sedentary does or involves a lot of sitting.
Sedentary can also mean not physically active as in a sedentary lifestyle or not migratory as in sedentary birds or a sedentary civilization.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Forbes.
From open offices to home workstations,
employees across industries invested in sit-stand setups with the hope of counteracting sedentary lifestyles.
The word sedentary comes from the Latin verb sedere, meaning to sit.
Other descendants of sedere include the words dissident, insidious, preside, reside, and subsidy.
Sedere is also the base of the rare sedence,
a noun that refers to a person who remains a resident of the place or region of their birth.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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