sententious
ADJECTIVE
/sɛn'tɛnʃəs/
11 LETTERS · 3 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH S
sententious is a valid 11-letter word worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
S1E1N1T1E1N1T1I1O1U1S1
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =11 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 22TRIPLE WORD → 33
MEANING
What does sententious mean?
ADJECTIVE · 2 SENSES
1
Concise and full of meaning.
“the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams”
SYNONYMS
SIMILAR
2
Abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing.
“too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation”
SIMILAR