sententious
Overview of adj sententious
The adj sententious has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. sententious -- (abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes)
2. pithy, 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)
Antonyms of adj sententious
2 senses of sententious
Sense 1
sententious
INDIRECT (VIA pretentious) -> unpretentious
Sense 2
pithy, sententious
INDIRECT (VIA concise) -> prolix
Similarity of adj sententious
2 senses of sententious
Sense 1
sententious
=> pretentious (vs. unpretentious)
Sense 2
pithy, sententious
=> concise (vs. prolix)
Pertainyms of adj sententious
Attributes of adj sententious
Domain of adj sententious
Domain Terms of adj sententious
Familiarity of adj sententious
sententious used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj sententious
sententious
Grep of adv sententious
sententiously
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