oracular

oracular
I adjective cryptic, divinatory, enigmatic, fatidic, fatidical, foreknowing, foretelling, knowing, mysterious, mystical, obscure, ominous, portentous, precursive, precursory, predicting, predictive, presaging, prognostic, prophetic, sage, sapient, sibylline, vatic, vaticinal, wise II index indefinite, mysterious, omniscient, portentous (ominous), profound (esoteric), prophetic

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР
Synonyms:

Look at other dictionaries:

  • oracular — ORACULÁR, Ă, oraculari, e, adj. (Rar) care aparţine oracolului, privitor la oracol. – Oracul + suf. ar. Trimis de mihvar, 13.11.2003. Sursa: DEX 98  oraculár adj. m., pl. oraculári; f. sg. oraculáră, pl …   Dicționar Român

  • 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • oracular — (adj.) 1670s, from L. oraculum (see ORACLE (Cf. oracle)) + AR (Cf. ar) …   Etymology dictionary

  • oracular — adj. 2 g. 1. Relativo a oráculo. • v. intr. 2.  [Pouco usado] Falar como oráculo …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • oracular — doctrinaire, dogmatic, *dictatorial, authoritarian, magisterial Analogous words: positive, certain, *sure, cocksure …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • oracular — [adj] prophetic ambiguous, anticipating, apocalyptic, arcane, auguring, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, Delphian, discovering, divining, divulging, dogmatic, fatidic, foreboding, forecasting, foretelling, imperious,… …   New thesaurus

  • oracular — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to an oracle. 2) hard to interpret. 3) holding or claiming the authority of an oracle …   English terms dictionary

  • oracular — [ō rak′yo͞o lər, ôrak′yo͞o lər; ō rak′yələr, ô rak′yələr] adj. 1. of, or having the nature of, an oracle 2. like an oracle; wise, prophetic, mysterious, etc. 3. obscure; enigmatic oracularity [ō rak′yo͞o lar′ə tē, ō rak′yo͞olar′ə tē] n.… …   English World dictionary

  • oracular — adjective /ɒɹˈæk.juː.lə,ɔːˈɹæk.juː.lə,ɔˈɹæk.ju.lɚ,ɔˈɹæk.jə.lɚ/ a) Of or relating to an oracle. In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same oracular power to a large black stone by the sea shore, which they approached with certain solemnities …   Wiktionary

  • oracular — adjective 1) his every utterance was given oracular significance Syn: prophetic, prophetical, sibylline, predictive, prescient, prognostic, divinatory, augural 2) oracular responses Syn: enigmatic, cryptic, abstruse …   Thesaurus of popular words

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”