Definition of sententious Sententious
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We found 8 definitions of sententious from 4 different sources.
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| sententious - abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes | ||
| sententious - concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen | ||
| pithy | ||
| concise expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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. - sententious (a.)
Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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sententious
Given to trite moralising.
