Adjective sententious has 2 senses
  1. sententious - abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
    Antonym:
    unpretentious (indirect, via pretentious)
  2. pithy, sententious - concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
    Antonym: prolix (indirect, via concise)
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