seated

Sitting on a chair or another surface.

• Please remain seated.
• The guests were seated around the table.
• A seated passenger offered his place to an older woman.

How to use it: be seated at something (We were seated at a small table.); be seated next to someone (She was seated next to her brother.)

Similar words: sitting

Opposites: standing

Common phrases: remain seated, seated at something, seated beside someone

Firmly established and difficult to change or remove.

• His fear was deeply seated.
• The habit remained firmly seated despite her efforts to change it.
• Such seated beliefs are difficult to question.

Similar words: established, entrenched, fixed

Common phrases: deeply seated, firmly seated, seated belief

Located in a particular place.

• The house is seated on a hill.
• The village was seated beside a narrow river.
• Their estate is seated in a fertile valley.

How to use it: be seated on something (The castle is seated on a rocky hill.); be seated in somewhere (The village is seated in a sheltered valley.)

Similar words: located, situated

Common phrases: seated on something, seated in somewhere

Having a seat or seats fitted to it.

• They bought a leather seated chair.
• The wooden seated bench stood near the door.
• Each padded seated stool matched the kitchen table.

Common phrases: leather seated chair, wooden seated bench