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Word | 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 / abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing / Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims / terse; concise; aphoristic / given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner. / having or expessing strong opinions about what people should and should not do, | |
Usage | ⇒ Ram has a sententious personality ⇒ After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing. ⇒ a smug and sententious writer ⇒ he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric |
Synonyms | pithy, laconic, succinct, terse, concise, pretentious, short, brief, pointed, aphoristic, showy, compendious, didactic, epigrammatic, compact, condensed, ornate, pompous, crisp, curt, |
Antonyms | lengthy, diffuse, garrulous, long, prolix, tedious, unpretentious, verbose, wordy, circuitous, circumlocutory, expanded, long-winded, pleonastic, rambling, rangy, soulless, |
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