How do you pronounce sequacious?

The recorded pronunciation is /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/.

sequacious

/sɪˈkweɪʃəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: se-qua-cious
IPA: /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/

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Meaning

adj

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

Obsolete

adj

Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.

adj

Following neatly or smoothly.

adj

Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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..."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *sekʷ-, sequāx

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more sequacious (comparative) most sequacious (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonsequacious sequaciously sequaciousness sequacity unsequacious

Synonyms

ductile pliant malleable tractable subservient servile following attendant credulous unoriginal obedient flowing

Antonyms

rambling discursive extensive

Rhymes With

gracious spacious cretaceous tenacious audacious gaseous herbaceous voracious flirtatious vivacious ostentatious fallacious