SkyfireDict

sententious   (TTS Sound)

The adj sententious has 2 senses

• sententious -- (abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes)


• pithy, sententious -- (concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen)