About The Word Oracular
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Oracular
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What's The Definition Of Oracular?
[adj] resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"
[adj] obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular message" [adj] of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to expose a witch" Synonyms | Synonyms for Oracular: ambiguous | Delphic | enigmatic | prophetic | prophetical Related Terms | Find terms related to Oracular: apocalyptic | augural | auguring | bigoted | conceited | divinatory | doctrinaire | doctrinarian | dogmatic | dogmatizing | fatidic | forecasting | foreseeing | foretelling | forewarning | fortunetelling | haruspical | mantic | opinionated | opinionative | opinioned | peremptory | pontifical | positive | positivistic | predictional | predictive | predictory | prefigurative | prefiguring | presageful | presaging | presignificative | presignifying | prognostic | prognosticative | pronunciative | prophetic | self-opinionated | self-opinioned | sibyllic | sibylline | vaticinal | vaticinatory | weather-wise See Also | Oracular In Webster's Dictionary \O*rac"u*lar\, a. [L. oracularius. See {Oracle}.]
1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles;
forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
They have something venerable and oracular in that
unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
--Pope.
-- {O*rac"u*lar*ly}, adv. -- {O*rac"u*lar*ness}, n.
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