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sententious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of sententious

1 marked by or given to preaching moral values

a sententious crank who has written countless letters to the editor about the decline in family values

Synonyms of sententious

didactic, homiletic (or homiletical), moralistic, moralizing, preachy, sermonic

Words Related to sententious

dogmatic (also dogmatical), prescriptive

admonishing, admonitory, cautionary

advisory, enlightening, instructive

holier-than-thou, self-righteous

2 marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning

memoirs that are filled with sententious observations on love, marriage, and happiness

Synonyms of sententious

aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail

Words Related to sententious

abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), short, snippety, snippy

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortened

meaty, substantial

meaningful, significant

Near Antonyms of sententious

pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

enlarged, expanded, supplemented

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated

Antonyms of sententious

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy

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