sententious

sententious is a 11-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
2. adjective. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
3. adjective. concise and full of meaning- Hervey Allen

   "welcomed her pithy comments"

   "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"

   Synonyms: pithy

4. adjective. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing- Kathleen Barnes

   "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"

Synonyms

pithy

Common word forms

sententiously, sententiousness

Words from these letters

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