Found 2 items, similar to Sententious.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sententious 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sententious 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]