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sententious
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1 sententious
Abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing.
Roget 577:
ornament
etc.
v.;
beautified
etc.
847;
ornate,
florid,
rich,
flowery;
euphuistic†,
euphemistic;
sonorous;
high-sounding,
big-sounding;
inflated,
swelling,
tumid;
turgid,
turgescent;
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted;
orotund;
high flown,
high flowing;
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory;
grandiose;
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent†;
sesquipedal†,
sesquipedalian;
Johnsonian,
mouthy;
bombastic;
fustian;
frothy,
flashy,
flaming.
antithetical,
alliterative;
figurative
etc.
521;
artificial
etc.
(inelegant)
579.
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2 sententious
Concise and full of meaning:
— The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams.
synoniem: pithy.
Roget 572:
concise,
brief,
short,
terse,
close;
to the point,
exact;
neat,
compact;
compressed,
condensed,
pointed;
laconic,
curt,
pithy,
trenchant,
summary;
pregnant;
compendious
etc.
(compendium)
596;
succinct;
elliptical,
epigrammatic,
quaint,
crisp;
sententious.
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Roget 574:
vigorous,
nervous,
powerful,
forcible,
trenchant,
incisive,
impressive;
sensational.
spirited,
lively,
glowing,
sparkling,
racy,
bold,
slashing;
pungent,
piquant,
full of point,
pointed,
pithy,
antithetical;
sententious.
lofty,
elevated,
sublime;
eloquent;
vehement,
petulant,
impassioned;
poetic.
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Pools: sentencjonalny
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