sententious

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; - Kathleen Barnes
  • "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"
• concise and full of meaning; ; - Hervey Allen
  • "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"

Adj

• Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
• Tending to use aphorisms or maxims; especially, to such an extent as to engage in trite moralizing, even self-righteously so.
• Full of meaning.

Synonyms

aphoristic, concise, pithy

Related Words

sentential