sententious

sententious
    adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic
           moralizing; "too often the significant episode
           deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen
           Barnes
    2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
       "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don
       Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: {pithy},
       {sententious}]
    

Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F.
   sentencieux.]
   1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of
      meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a
      sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
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            How he apes his sire,
            Ambitiously sententious!              --Addison.
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   2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.]
      "Sententious marks." --Grew.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Sen*ten"tious*ly}, adv. --
      {Sen*ten"tious*ness}, n.
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150 Moby Thesaurus words for "sententious":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged,
      admonitory, advisory, affected, allegorical, aphoristic,
      aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, bedizened, big-sounding,
      brief, brusque, cautionary, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
      compressed, concise, condensed, connotational, connotative,
      consultative, consultatory, contracted, convoluted, crisp, curt,
      cut, declamatory, definable, denotational, denotative, didactic,
      directive, docked, elevated, elliptic, eloquent, epigrammatic,
      euphuistic, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory,
      expressive, extended, extensional, facund, figurative, flamboyant,
      flaming, flashy, flaunting, formulaic, formulistic,
      full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, fulsome, garish,
      gaudy, gnomic, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant,
      high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin,
      hortative, hortatory, indicative, inkhorn, instructive,
      intelligible, intensional, interpretable, labyrinthine, laconic,
      lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meaning, meaningful, meaty,
      meretricious, metaphorical, monitorial, monitory, moralistic,
      orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved,
      overwrought, pedantic, piquant, pithy, platitudinous, pointed,
      pompous, preachy, pregnant, pretentious, proverbial, pruned,
      pungent, readable, recommendatory, referential, remonstrant,
      remonstrative, remonstratory, reserved, rhetorical, rich,
      sensational, sensationalistic, short, short and sweet, shortened,
      showy, significant, significative, sonorous, stilted, substantial,
      succinct, suggestive, summary, symbolic, synopsized, taciturn,
      tall, terse, tight, to the point, tortuous, transferred, truncated,
      warning