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sententious a. 简洁的,警句的,富于格言的 简洁的,警句的,富於格言的 sententious adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; " too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes 2: concise and full of meaning; " welcomed her pithy comments"; " the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [ synonym: { pithy}, { sententious}] Sententious \ Sen* ten" tious\, a.[ L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux.] 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. [ 1913 Webster] How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [ Obs.] " Sententious marks." -- Grew. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Sen* ten" tious* ly}, adv. -- { Sen* ten" tious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 150 Moby Thesaurus words for " sententious": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, admonitory, advisory, affected, allegorical, aphoristic, aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, bedizened, big- sounding, brief, brusque, cautionary, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, connotational, connotative, consultative, consultatory, contracted, convoluted, crisp, curt, cut, declamatory, definable, denotational, denotative, didactic, directive, docked, elevated, elliptic, eloquent, epigrammatic, euphuistic, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, expressive, extended, extensional, facund, figurative, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, formulaic, formulistic, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, fulsome, garish, gaudy, gnomic, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- sounding, highfalutin, hortative, hortatory, indicative, inkhorn, instructive, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, labyrinthine, laconic, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meaning, meaningful, meaty, meretricious, metaphorical, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, piquant, pithy, platitudinous, pointed, pompous, preachy, pregnant, pretentious, proverbial, pruned, pungent, readable, recommendatory, referential, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, reserved, rhetorical, rich, sensational, sensationalistic, short, short and sweet, shortened, showy, significant, significative, sonorous, stilted, substantial, succinct, suggestive, summary, symbolic, synopsized, taciturn, tall, terse, tight, to the point, tortuous, transferred, truncated, warning
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