Oracular

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster] -- {O*rac"u*lar*ly}, adv. --
        {O*rac"u*lar*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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