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Sedative vs Sedentary - What's the difference?

sedative | sedentary |

As adjectives the difference between sedative and sedentary

is that sedative is calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing while sedentary is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

As a noun sedative

is an agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

sedative

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

    • Synonyms

    * (agents that cause sleep) sleeping pill, soporific, tranquilizer * (other agents that sedate) anxiolytic, depressant, downer

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Calming]], soothing, inducing sleep, [[tranquilize, tranquilizing

    • Synonyms

    * ataractic * ataraxic

    References

    * (wikipedia "sedative")

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    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