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Synonyms for sententious in English

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sententious:
- pithy; sententious

English

Detailed Synonyms for sententious in English

sententious:

sententious adj

sententious

– concise and full of meaning ¹
pithy; sententious
– concise and full of meaning ¹
- pithy adj
  - welcomed her pithy comments¹
- sententious adj
  - the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams¹
sententious

– abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing ¹
sententious
– abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing ¹
- sententious adj
  - too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation¹

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Related Definitions for "sententious":

concise and full of meaning¹
- the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams¹
abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing¹
- too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation¹

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