sequacious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

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

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

2. 2
   adj

   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
   adj

   Following neatly or smoothly.

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

4. 4
   adj

   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.

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

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