Oracular \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.
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2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
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They have something venerable and oracular in that
unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
--Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
oracular
adj 1: of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to
expose a witch"
2: obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular
message" [syn: Delphic]
3: 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" [syn: enigmatic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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