Sequacious

//sɪˈkweɪʃəs// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded. obsolete

    "Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath."

  2. 2
    Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.

    "See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion."

  3. 3
    Following neatly or smoothly.

    "And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise."

  4. 4
    Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.

    "Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious, like those of the planets."

Synonyms

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tractableadaptableattendantbendablecompliantconsequent

Example

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"Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath."

Etymology

Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -ious (adjective-forming suffix).

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prone to

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