sequacious means likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded. It carries an Arena rating of 1378, earned across 5 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sequacious ranks #172 of 17,122 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #1,451 of 17,123 for Most Malleable Words, #2,054 of 17,130 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #3,230 of 17,125 for Most Incisive Words.
sequacious is pronounced /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/.
Why “sequacious” is a great word
Inclined to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially in an unthinking or uncritical manner. From the Latin sequāx, sequāc- ("following, pursuing"), from sequī ("to follow") + the English adjectival suffix -ious. Unlike “discursive,” which describes a mind wandering freely from topic to topic, or “ductile,” which denotes a material’s physical pliability, “sequacious” specifies an intellectual and behavioral pliancy. It is the hushed assent in a room of nodding heads, the crowd that surges toward whatever doorway others have chosen, the echo that believes it is the voice—the quiet tragedy of a path chosen only because it was already there.
Etymology
Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -ious (adjective-forming suffix).
adj
- Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.e.g.“Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath.”
- Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.e.g.“See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion.”
- Following neatly or smoothly.e.g.“And now, its strings
Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes
Over delicious surges sink and rise.”
- Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.e.g.“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.”
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