sententious

From Latin sententiōsus, from sententia (“opinion, purpose”).

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɛn.ʃəs/
• Hyphenation: sen‧ten‧tious

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

sententious (comparative more sententious, superlative most sententious)

1. Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
2. Tending to use aphorisms or maxims; especially, to such an extent as to engage in trite moralizing, even self-righteously so.
3. (obsolete) Full of meaning.

• (using as few words as possible): concise, pithy
• (tending to use aphorisms): aphoristic

• sententiosity
• sententiously
• sententiousness

• sentential