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Definitions: Sententious |
SententiousAdjective1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sententious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[Latin sentenciosus: compare to the French expression sentencieux.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SententiousSynonym: pithy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conciseness | Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious. |
Ornament | Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; 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. |
Vigor | Spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sententious |
| English words defined with "sententious": Apothegmatize ♦ Gnomic Poets, Gnomical, Gnomically ♦ Lapidary style ♦ pithy ♦ Sententiosity, sententiously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sententious": Sadi. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sententious": Sententiosity. (references) |
| "Sententious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sententious" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sententious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | plotë kuptim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جامع مانع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нравоучителен (didactic, exhortative, moralizing), надуто-банален, афористичен (aphoristic, gnomic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bombastický (bombastic, highfaluting, overblown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرمغز (Pithy), نصیحت امیز, اندرزامیز, اغراق امیز (Tall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sentencieux, pompeux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | salbungsvoll (sententiously, unctious, unctuous, unctuously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύντομοσ (brief, concise, curt, summary, tabloid), σημαντικόσ (considerable, conspicuous, handsome, material, notable, outstanding, semantic, significant), πληκτικόσ (drab, dull, humdrum, prolix, uninteresting), αποφθεγματικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלץ (epigrammatic, fulsome, grandiloquent, rhetoric, rotund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagyképű (bumptious, consequential, gobbledygook, large, pedantic, pompous, self-conceited, self-conscious, show-off, stuck-up), bölcs gondolatokban bővelkedő, bölcs (advised, guru, philosopher, prudent, sage, sapient, sapiential, wise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sentenzioso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giare-'ocklagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ententioussay sentencioso (gnostic), moralizador, judicioso (clearheaded, discriminating, judicial, judiciary, judicious, prudent, reasonable, sagacious, sensible, shrewd, well-judged, wise, wizard), formalista (formal, formality, precisian, prim, punctilious, square toes, starchy), conceituoso, cheio de adágios, aforístico (aphoristic). (various references) sentenţios (sententiously), plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, slow, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary). (various references) нравоучительный (didactic, exhortative, preachy). (various references) geacach. (various references) sentenciozan. (various references) sentencioso (oracular, pedantic, pontifical). (various references) kärnfull. (various references) vecizelerle konuşan, kısa ve özlü (brief but to the point, pithy, tight), özlü (brief, capsule, compact, concise, juicy, laconic, lapidary, loamy, lush, meaty, pithy, pulpy, racy, sappy, starchy, substantial, succinct, succulent, terse), öğüt verir gibi konuşan. (various references) сентенційний, повчальний (didactic, edifying, exemplary, homiletic, homiletical, hortative, hortatory, illuminative, informative, instructive, sapiential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sententiosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sententious": sententiously, sententiousness, sententiousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sententious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sententias, sententiis, sententioous, sententous, sestertius, setentious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: intensest, noisettes, nuttiness, sentients, snoutiest, sostenuti, teosintes, tinstones. | |
-3 letters: essonite, neustons, noisette, nonissue, nonsuits, nutsiest, osteites, sentient, stoniest, stoutens, sunniest, sunstone, tennises, tennists, tensions, teosinte, tinstone, tontines, unsonsie. | |
-4 letters: eosines, intense, intents, intones, neuston, nonsuit, nonuses, nosiest, oneness, outseen, outsees, outsets, outsins, outsits, sennets, sennits, sestine, setouts, sonnets, sonnies, stouten, suttees, tennies, tennist. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: sententiously. | |
+3 letters: constituencies, neuroscientist. | |
+4 letters: contentiousness, importunateness, neuroscientists, pretentiousness, sententiousness, supercontinents, tendentiousness. | |
+5 letters: constructiveness, counterinstances, counterquestions, nutritiousnesses, ostentatiousness, supplementations, underestimations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 74 65 6E 74 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. - . -. - .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n t e n t i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0074 0065 006E 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371808671808675818785 |
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