sequacious

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure

   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.
   • Now extract From the sequacious earth the pole.
   • In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious and obedient to the stroke of the artificer, and apt to be drawn, formed, and moulded.
2. 2

   Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to…

   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.
   • By seeming to... admire their many new masters, and their rarer gifts; which make them worthy indeed of such soft and sequacious disciples.
   • 1687, Dryden, first ode for St. Cecilia's Day Orpheus could lead the savage race; And trees uprooted left their place; Sequacious of the lyre...
3. 3

   Following neatly or smoothly.

   • And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise.
   • That Hellenic speech... that rises and falls in Plato with the long sequacious music of an Æolian lute.
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   1. 4

      Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single…

      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.

The neighborhood

• antonymramblingantonym(s) of “following logically”
• antonymdiscursiveantonym(s) of “following logically”
• antonymextensiveantonym(s) of “following logically”