oracular

oracular
adj
1. prophetic, prophetical, sibylic, sibylline, vatic, vatical, vatinical, pythonic, fatidic, fatidical; augural, divinatory, haruspical, mantic, Delphic, Delphian; foretelling, presaging, foreshadowing, presentient; prognostic, predictive, predictory.
2. authoritative, absolute, positive, official, official-sounding, Latin, ex cathedra; commanding, judicious, judicial, philosophical, apocalyptical, apocalyptic; arbitrary, dictatorial, prescriptive, imperious, dogmatic, opinionated, self-assured; pontifical, peremptory, doctrinaire.
3. grave, solemn, magisterial, imposing, profound, weighty, heavy; pointed, aphoristic, gnomic, sententious.
4. metaphorical, symbolic, figurative, allegorical, latent, between the lines, under the surface; obscure, enigmatic, not easily understood, obfuscated, vague, nebulous, ambiguous, cryptic, arcane; mystic, orphic, occult, mysterious, dark, hidden, shrouded, clouded, impenetrable, unfathomable; confusing, unclear, indefinite, unspecific, equivocal, perplexing, puzzling, undefinable.
5. portentous, fateful, indicative, significant, boding, suggestive, allusive, allusory, pregnant; ominous, sinister, frightening, disquieting, disturbing; premonitory, foreboding, direful, alarming, fear-inspiring; threatening, menacing, minatory, making one's flesh crawl or creep, making one's hair stand on end, Inf. creepy.

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  • 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 — I adjective cryptic, divinatory, enigmatic, fatidic, fatidical, foreknowing, foretelling, knowing, mysterious, mystical, obscure, ominous, portentous, precursive, precursory, predicting, predictive, presaging, prognostic, prophetic, sage, sapient …   Law dictionary

  • 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

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