Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Highly impressionable or unquestioning, especially in following a leader or embracing an idea.
- adjective Coherent or flowing smoothly from one part to the next.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Following; attendant; adhering; disposed to follow a leader.
- Ductile; pliant; manageable.
- Logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
- adjective Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.
- adjective Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending in a continuous intellectual direction; not rambling or discursive.
- adjective Following along;
attendant . - adjective
ductile ;malleable ;pliant ;manageable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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By which she did not mean a sequacious helpmeet to the Man of the House, picking up his dirty underwear and serving him Budweisers during commercials, but rather a partner in the management of a "small, diversified family firm," who is skilled in everything "from bread-making to beekeeping."
The Way Of Love/1 2008
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The human race is gregarious and sequacious, rather than individual and adventurous.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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It seemed odd that after so long it would continue to be sequacious to trust what was experienced in either of the chemically induced realms but then, he asked himself, what choice did it have?
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Closer to the market there were numerous people in a row like sequacious ants, all seeking bits of a distant morsel, but unlike ants these people sought for themselves and, even here, with their wallets as feelers.
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Only months earlier he had been a sequacious adherent of it as an incorrigible womanizer, and yet now his actions were more impotent than a misfiring and his manhood was debunked by being sodomized.
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Societies were founded, cities built, and countries cultivated by Orpheus and Amphion, and men of analogous fame, who wielded at will this mythic power, and made all the susceptibilities of nature "sequacious of the lyre."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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At last a man as fat as a tub and as sequacious as a child wobbled toward this woman, 'Four'; but, according to the feelings of the god, Nawin, that drenched the ground that they stood upon lugubriously, the two were not meant to stand together.
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The human race is gregarious and sequacious, rather than individual and adventurous.
Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922
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While the tranquil Sabine Farm is his delight, well he knows that on the dark trail ahead of him, even Sabine Farms are not sequacious.
The Precept of Peace 1921
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But this merely sequacious thought was promptly routed.
The Avalanche Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
reesetee commented on the word sequacious
Unthinkingly following others.
May 30, 2007
uselessness commented on the word sequacious
That's always a bad thing. Unless the person being unthinkingly followed is me.
May 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sequacious
Ah, that's one of the qualities I like about you, uselessness--your humility. :-)
May 30, 2007
uselessness commented on the word sequacious
What I lack in humility, I make up for in trustworthiness. I mean really, who else would you even consider following unthinkingly? If you've got to put your confidence in somebody, I'm your man.
May 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sequacious
Of course! No one else would do. <--obsequiousness
May 31, 2007
qms commented on the word sequacious
The truthers are loud and loquacious.
Their grip on belief is tenacious,
But fervor distracts
From an absence of facts
And reasoning less than sequacious.
May 11, 2015