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oracular

adjective

1 oracular

Of or relating to an oracle.

Roget 498: intelligent [Applied to persons], quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, ... show more

Roget 511: predicting etc. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise.    ... show more

2 oracular

Obscurely prophetic:
— An oracular message.

synonym: Delphic.

3 oracular

Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought:
— The oracular sayings of Victorian poets.

synonym: enigmatic.

Roget 475: uncertain; casual; random etc. (aimless) 621; changeable etc. 149.    doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: apocalyptic, augural, auguring, bigoted, conceited, divinatory, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, fatidic, forecasting, foreseeing, foretelling, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, mantic, opinionated, opinionative ... show more.

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