Sequacious

/sɪˈkweɪʃəs/ adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced 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."

Example

More examples

"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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