Thesaurus: sententious

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1. a. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
2. a. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
3. adj. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
4. adj. concise and full of meaning
5. 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! Addison. 2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.] "Sententious marks." Grew. --- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Sen*ten"tious*ness, n.
6. s. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing