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oracular a. 神谕的,神论似的,谜似的 神谕的,神论似的,谜似的 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" [ synonym: { Delphic}, { oracular}] 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" [ synonym: { enigmatic}, { oracular}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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