What is another word for sententious?
Pronunciation:
[ sɛntˈɛnʃəs], [ sɛntˈɛnʃəs], [ s_ɛ_n_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_s]
Related words: sentimental, sesquipedalian, sententious expression, sententious statement, pontifical, sententious words
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Similar words for sententious:
- all (adjective)
- aphoristic (adjective)
- compact (adjective)
- concise (adjective)
- eloquent (adjective)
- formal (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- incommunicative (adjective)
- inkhorn (adjective)
- laconic (adjective)
- meaningful (adjective)
- moving (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pedantic (adjective)
- pompous (adjective)
- preachy (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- significant (adjective)
- taciturn (adjective)
- terse (adjective)
- tightlipped (adjective)
- trenchant (adjective)
- uncommunicable (adjective)
- compact (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- reticent
Synonyms for Sententious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • aphoristic (adjective) • compact (adjective) • concise (adjective) • eloquent (adjective)- most fervid,
- most wellexpressed,
- most smooth spoken,
- more smooth-spoken,
- more revealing,
- silver tongued,
- most well expressed,
- smoothspoken,
- smooth spoken,
- silvertongued,
- most smoothspoken,
- more wellexpressed,
- more well expressed,
- most well-expressed,
- wellexpressed,
- more well-expressed,
- most smooth-spoken,
- well expressed,
- more smoothspoken,
- out-spoken,
- most revealing,
- more telling,
- more smooth spoken,
- out spoken.
- most starched,
- un-bending,
- ex act,
- playing game,
- more starched,
- re-served,
- ex-act,
- re served,
- un bending.
- donnish,
- expressive,
- moralizing,
- the point,
- smooth-spoken,
- taut,
- laconic,
- formal,
- doctrinaire,
- pointed,
- significant,
- Inkhorn,
- to the point,
- outspoken,
- gnomic,
- overnice,
- over-nice,
- trenchant,
- terse,
- straight arrow,
- pregnant,
- meaningful,
- pedantic,
- property,
- Starched,
- bombastic,
- potent,
- moving,
- suggestive,
- playing the game,
- by numbers,
- judicial,
- nit-picking,
- formalistic,
- schoolish,
- eloquent,
- well-expressed,
- Pedantical,
- preachy,
- aphoristic,
- most telling,
- clear cut.
- more schoolish,
- most nit-picking,
- most schoolish,
- most overnice,
- over nice,
- more hairsplitting,
- more donnish,
- most donnish,
- more nit-picking,
- nit picking,
- more overnice,
- most hairsplitting,
- more nit picking,
- most nit picking.
- Curtate,
- cut to bone,
- decurtate,
- shortest,
- Unsustained,
- unprolonged,
- cut to the bone,
- not protracted,
- under-sized,
- in a nutshell.
- more denoting,
- ex pressing,
- de noting,
- de-noting,
- re-presentative,
- most meaning,
- re presentative,
- ex-pressing,
- more expressing,
- more meaning,
- most denoting,
- most expressing.
n.
• compact (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• reticent
How to use "Sententious" in context?
The word "sententious" is derived from the Latin sententia, meaning "a thought, statement, or opinion." The word typically describes someone who is excessively or superstitiously fond of using words in a lofty or profound way. ASententious person is often considered pompous, overbearing, or humorless.
Homophones for Sententious:
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- Synonyms:
- factotum.
