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Meaning of 'sententious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sententious [ a.]
- Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
- Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.

Meaning of 'sententious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sententious [ s]
Meaning (1):
- concise and full of meaning
Example in sentence:
  • the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams;
  • welcomed her pithy comments
Meaning (2):
- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
Example in sentence:
  • too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation

Nearby Words:

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