Synonyms and Antonyms of sententious
- a sententious crank who has written countless letters to the editor about the decline in family values
didactic, homiletic (or homiletical), moralistic, moralizing, preachy, sermonic
- memoirs that are filled with sententious observations on love, marriage, and happiness
aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail