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Sedentary vs Nomadic - What's the difference?

sedentary | nomadic |

As adjectives the difference between sedentary and nomadic

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

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

    nomadic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nomadick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to nomads.
  • Leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; peripatetic, itinerant.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01
    • , author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore , title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48 , magazine= citation , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.}}

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