sententious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
    • too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
  2. adjective satellite concise and full of meaning
    pithy.
    • welcomed her pithy comments
    • the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

WordNet

Sen*ten"tious adjective
Etymology
L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux.
Definitions
  1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
    How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! Addison.
  2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. Obs. "Sententious marks." Grew. --- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Sen*ten"tious*ness, n.

Webster 1913