sententiously

1. 1.

   in a pithy sententious manner

   “she expressed herself pithily”

   Synonymspithily

Questions about sententiously

What does sententiously mean?

sententiously means "in a pithy sententious manner".

How many syllables are in sententiously?

sententiously has 5 syllables and divides as sen-ten-ti-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sententiously?

Close synonyms include pithily. 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 sententiously a common word?

sententiously 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.