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Sanitary vs Sedentary - What's the difference?

sanitary | sedentary |

As adjectives the difference between sanitary and sedentary

is that sanitary is of, or relating to health while sedentary is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

sanitary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, or relating to health
  • clean and free from pathogens; hygienic

    • Related terms

    * sanitize

    Derived terms

    * sanitary district * sanitary engineer * sanitary engineering * sanitary landfill * sanitary napkin * sanitary science * sanitary sewer * sanitary towel

    sedentary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
    • The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
  • Not moving much; sitting around.
  • * Bishop Warburton
    • Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
  • (obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
  • * Milton
    • The sedentary earth.
  • * Spectator
    • The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
  • (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
  • * Milton
    • Sedentary numbness.

    Synonyms

    * settled

    Antonyms

    * migratory * active