sitsome

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adjective

Tending to, apt to, prone to, or desirous to be seated or sitting; sedentary; stationary.

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Meanings

adjectivesitsome (comparative more sitsome, superlative most sitsome)

comparative more sitsome · superlative most sitsome

  1. Tending to, apt to, prone to, or desirous to be seated or sitting; sedentary; stationary.

    "You'll kindly excuse me if I don't raise, honourable and reverend sir; after dinner, and being stout, a body feels sitsome, you know," said the lady, putting out a fat and jewel-laden hand to her visitor.

    1872, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, The Stilwinches of Combe Mavis

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
sedentary

Origin

From sit + -some. Compare German sittsam (“decent, demure, prudish”), Swedish sedesam (“decent, modest, prim”). Compare setsome.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Moisset
Cite this entry
APA

sitsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sitsome

MLA

“sitsome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sitsome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sitsome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sitsome.

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