Sedentary vs Stationary - What's the difference?
sedentary | stationary |
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
Not moving.
incapable of being moved
unchanging
One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
As adjectives the difference between sedentary and stationary
is that sedentary is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity while stationary is not moving.As a noun stationary is
one who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.sedentary
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.
Synonyms
* settledAntonyms
* migratory * activestationary
English
Adjective
(wikipedia stationary) (en adjective)- For a few moments, the train remained stationary , before lurching forward along the track.
Synonyms
* (not moving) fixed, immobile, motionless, still, stock-still, unmoving * (incapable of being moved) immobile, unmoveable * (unchanging) changeless, constant, immutable, unchangingAntonyms
* (not moving) in motion, moving, on the move * (incapable of being moved) mobile, moveable * (unchanging) changing, mutable, variableNoun
(stationaries)- (Holland)
