Hyphenation of sententious

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word sententious? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of sententious:

1.	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

Synonyms of sententious:

adj	pretentious
adj	pithy, concise

Last hyphenations of this language

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