sententious+precept
41wisdom — Synonyms and related words: Sophia, adage, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, apprehension, appropriateness, axiom, beneficialness, broad mindedness, byword, catchword, clairvoyance, collected sayings,… …
42witticism — Synonyms and related words: adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, byword, catchword, collected sayings, conceit, crack, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, drollery,… …
43word — Synonyms and related words: Bible oath, Parthian shot, account, acquaintance, adage, address, admission, advice, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, altercation, ana, analects, announcement, annunciation, answer, aphorism, apostrophe …
44words of wisdom — Synonyms and related words: adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, byword, catchword, collected sayings, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, expression, gnome, golden saying, maxim, moral, mot, motto, oracle, phrase,… …
45maxim — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Saying Nouns 1. maxim, aphorism, gnome, apothegm, dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot, motto, catchphrase, word, moral, byword, household word; axiom, theorum, scholium, truism, truth,… …
46motto — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. maxim, adage, precept, device. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. maxim, adage, saying, saw, epigram, aphorism, apothegm, pretty sentiment, slogan, catchword, watchword, byword, catch phrase, axiom, sententious… …
47aphorism — n proverb, apothegm, gnome, mot, adage, epigram, Archaic. word, Archaic. sentence; saw, pithy statement, sententious saying, saying; axiom, maxim, precept, dictum; epigram, witticism, Fr. jeu d esprit. quip, Atticism; rule, golden rule, motto,… …
48maxim — n 1. aphorism, proverb, apothegm, gnome, mot, adage, Archaic. word, Archaic. sentence; saw, pithy statement, sententious saying, saying; axiom, precept, prescript, dictum; epigram, witticism, Fr. jeu d esprit. quip, Atticism; cliché , hackneyed… …
49moral — adj 1. ethical, righteous, just, good, fair, square; upright, honest, honorable, moralistic, decent, noble; open, straightforward, veracious; high minded, principled, responsible; proper, meet, right, correct, fit; fitting, seemly, decorous,… …
50proverb — n maxim, aphorism, apothegm, gnome, adage, Archaic. word, Archaic. sentence; saw, pithy statement, sententious saying, saying; axiom, precept, prescript, dictum, moral; epigram, witticism, Fr. jeu d esprit. quip, Atticism; clichd, hackneyed… …
