What does sententious mean?

sententious means "abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sententious?

sententious has 4 syllables: sen-ten-ti-ous. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for sententious?

Close synonyms include pithy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sententious a common word?

sententious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

sententious — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
“too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation”
Similarpretentious
2.
concise and full of meaning
“welcomed her pithy comments”
“the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams”
Synonymspithy
Similarconcise

Questions about sententious

What does sententious mean?: sententious means "abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in sententious?: sententious has 4 syllables: sen-ten-ti-ous. The stress falls on "ti".
What is another word for sententious?: Close synonyms include pithy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is sententious a common word?: sententious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sententious come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
“too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation”
Similarpretentious
2.
concise and full of meaning
“welcomed her pithy comments”
“the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams”
Synonymspithy
Similarconcise

Questions about sententious

What does sententious mean?: sententious means "abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in sententious?: sententious has 4 syllables: sen-ten-ti-ous. The stress falls on "ti".
What is another word for sententious?: Close synonyms include pithy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is sententious a common word?: sententious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sententious come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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