"sequacious" meaning in English

See sequacious in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/ Forms: more sequacious [comparative], most sequacious [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪʃəs Etymology: Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -ious (adjective-forming suffix). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sekʷ-|id=follow}}, {{glossary|derived terms|Derived}} Derived, {{der|en|la|sequāx||a follower|g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin sequāx (“a follower”), {{der+|en|la|sequāx||a follower}} Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} sequacious (comparative more sequacious, superlative most sequacious)
  1. (Of objects, obsolete) Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded. Tags: obsolete Synonyms (easily shaped): ductile, pliant, malleable, tractable
    Sense id: en-sequacious-en-adj-Y1-9JGRY Disambiguation of 'easily shaped': 65 25 6 4
  2. (Of people) Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led. Synonyms (easily led): subservient, servile, following, attendant, credulous, unoriginal, tractable, obedient
    Sense id: en-sequacious-en-adj-Qr8ARGeU Disambiguation of 'easily led': 20 74 4 3
  3. (Of musical notes or poetic feet) Following neatly or smoothly. Synonyms (following smoothly): flowing
    Sense id: en-sequacious-en-adj-WK78b8sQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ious, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 24 33 19 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ious: 19 21 41 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 16 40 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 21 42 16 Disambiguation of 'following smoothly': 8 21 54 17
  4. (Of thought) Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.
    Sense id: en-sequacious-en-adj-32qxeUYe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sequaciously, sequaciousness
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.