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Thesaurus: sententious
Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
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- a. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
- a. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
- adj. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
- adj. concise and full of meaning
- s. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing