Immobile vs Sedentary - What's the difference?
immobile | sedentary |
not mobile, not movable
fixed, unable to be moved
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
Not moving much; sitting around.
* Bishop Warburton
* Beaconsfield
(obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
* Milton
* Spectator
(obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
* Milton
As adjectives the difference between immobile and sedentary
is that immobile is not mobile, not movable while sedentary is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.immobile
English
(wikipedia immobile)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* fixed * sessile (botany) * unmovableAntonyms
* mobilesedentary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
- Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
- Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
- The sedentary earth.
- The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
- Sedentary numbness.