couch-potatoey

adjective

Like a couch potato; sedentary.

Meanings

adjectivecouch-potatoey (comparative more couch-potatoey, superlative most couch-potatoey)

comparative more couch-potatoey · superlative most couch-potatoey

  1. Like a couch potato; sedentary.

    The question is, why has mass media been so watered down and why do couch-potatoey people buy it?

    2006, Maximum Rocknroll
    2 more examples

    Judging from the on-line discussion of these types of events both before and after, the fat site users aren't just a damp bunch of pasty-skinned computer geeks whose only light is the flicker of their monitors; they're as physically active and bold (and, of course, sometimes as couch-potatoey and mild) as they are online.

    2004, Kathleen LeBesco, Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, page 107

    Now imagine moving those sheep into a parasite-free apartment in London—into clean, well-fed, couch-potatoey modernity.

    2013, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, An Epidemic of Absence

Origin

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