seated

Meanings

adjectiveseated (not comparable)

not comparableSitting.
not comparablebusinessOf a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt.
... but she was very conscious, too, of her Saturday-morning appearance - of her blouse, which she'd once unpicked and refashioned in an attempt at 'make-do and mend', and her old tweed skirt, rather seated at the back.
2011 February 3, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Hachette UK, →ISBN
not comparableFixed; confirmed.
"Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?
1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution
not comparableLocated; situated.
not comparableFurnished with a seat.
There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
figurativelynot comparableslangEagerly prepared to watch, listen to, consume; like at a cinema.
I'm seated for my favorite singer's new release tonight.

verb

adjective(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks

Similar

Opposite

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Esperanto sidanta

Polish siedzący

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