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sententious

English

  1. 🔊 abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
    “too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation”
  2. 🔊 concise and full of meaning
    “welcomed her pithy comments”

Similar words

pithy gongoresque johnsonian spartan abbreviated abridged admonitory advisory affected allegorical aphoristic aposiopestic associational axiomatic bedizened big-sounding brief brusque cautionary clipped close compact compendious compressed