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  1. sententious: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  2. sententious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. sententious: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. sententious: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. sententious: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. sententious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. sententious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. sententious: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. sententious: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. sententious: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. sententious: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Sententious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. sententious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. sententious: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. Sententious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. sententious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. sententious: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  18. sententious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  19. sententious: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. sententious: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. sententious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. sententious: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  23. sententious: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sententious: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (sententious)

adjective:  abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing ("Too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation- Kathleen Barnes")
adjective:  concise and full of meaning ("The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams- Hervey Allen")

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