sententious

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adjective

1. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
- "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
• Similar to:
pretentious
2. 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
• Similar to:
concise
• Derivationally related forms:
pith (for: pithy), pithiness (for: pithy)