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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing;
- Example: "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes

2. concise and full of meaning;
- Example: "welcomed her pithy comments"
- Example: "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
[syn: pithy, sententious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sententious adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes 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, sententious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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