sitting

1. 1.

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

   “the seated Madonna”

   “the audience remained seated”

   Synonymsseated
2. 2.

   not moving and therefore easy to attack

   “a sitting target”

   Similarnonmoving

Other forms of sitting

plural

sittings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sitting

What does sitting mean?

sitting means "(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sitting?

sitting has 2 syllables: sit-ting. The stress falls on "sit". In IPA it is /ˈsɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for sitting?

Close synonyms include posing, seance, session, seated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sitting a common word?

sitting is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sitting?

1 word rhymes with sitting. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.