| a. | 1. | Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; |
| 2. | Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. |
| Adj. | 1. | sententious - abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes |
| 2. | 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 Synonyms: pithy |
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