Sententious

Adjective

 * 1)  Full of meaning.
 * 2) Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
 * 3) Tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralizing.

Synonyms

 * concise, pithy
 * aphoristic

Derived terms

 * sententiously
 * sententiousness

Related terms

 * sentential

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From sententiosus:, from sententia:.

Translations

 * Swedish: konsis


 * Finnish:, ,  ,
 * French:, , succint
 * Italian:, succinto, laconico


 * Russian:, , сжатый, лаконичный
 * Spanish:, lacónico, sucinto


 * French: sentencieux,, pontifiant
 * Russian: ; ,


 * Spanish: