'Sententious' definitions:

Definition of 'sententious'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
adjective
Concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: pithy, sententious]

Definition of 'Sententious'

From: GCIDE
  • Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux.]
  • 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. [1913 Webster]
  • How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.] "Sententious marks." --Grew. [1913 Webster] -- {Sen*ten"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Sen*ten"tious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sententious'

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