Meaning & use

sequacious

adjective·Academic

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intellectually servile, tending to follow or imitate others without independent thought; also, following logically in sequence.

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The critic dismissed the essay as a sequacious rehashing of fashionable opinions.

His sequacious style of argument moved logically from one premise to the next.

A note on using this word

From Latin 'sequi', to follow, the word is rare and literary, most often found in older essays criticizing unoriginal thinking.

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