| slovo | definícia |
sententious
(encz) | sententious,aforistický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
sententious
(encz) | sententious,bombastický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Sententious
(gcide) | Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F.
sentencieux.]
1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of
meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a
sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
[1913 Webster]
How he apes his sire,
Ambitiously sententious! --Addison.
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2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.]
"Sententious marks." --Grew.
[1913 Webster] -- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. --
Sen*ten"tious*ness, n.
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sententious
(wn) | sententious
adj 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 [syn: pithy,
sententious] |
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sententiously
(encz) | sententiously,jadrně adv: Zdeněk Brožsententiously,výstižně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Sententious
(gcide) | Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F.
sentencieux.]
1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of
meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a
sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
[1913 Webster]
How he apes his sire,
Ambitiously sententious! --Addison.
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2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.]
"Sententious marks." --Grew.
[1913 Webster] -- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. --
Sen*ten"tious*ness, n.
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Sententiously
(gcide) | Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F.
sentencieux.]
1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of
meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a
sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
[1913 Webster]
How he apes his sire,
Ambitiously sententious! --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.]
"Sententious marks." --Grew.
[1913 Webster] -- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. --
Sen*ten"tious*ness, n.
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Sententiousness
(gcide) | Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F.
sentencieux.]
1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of
meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a
sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
[1913 Webster]
How he apes his sire,
Ambitiously sententious! --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.]
"Sententious marks." --Grew.
[1913 Webster] -- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. --
Sen*ten"tious*ness, n.
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sententiously
(wn) | sententiously
adv 1: in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself
pithily" [syn: pithily, sententiously] |
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