Adjective: sententious sen'ten-shus
- Abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
"too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"
- Concise and full of meaning
"the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams";
- pithy
See also: concise, pretentious
Encyclopedia: Sententious