Definition & Meaning of "sententious"in English

sententious

keeping one's speech short but extremely meaningful

Grammatical Information

Composition

Compound

qualitative

Superlative

most sententious

Comparative

more sententious

gradable

domain

communication, style, rhetoric

Examples

The speaker’s sententious remarks left a deep impression on the audience.

abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing

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