oracular

Speech parts

1. oracular - Adjective

2. oracular - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

delphic enigmatic mystic prognostic ambiguous obscure mysterious vague predictive apocalyptic astrological cryptic equivocal auspicious arcane
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Antonyms

known body material half-baked evident genuine
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Related terms

oracle

Examples

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. Ursula K. Le Guin

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Jacques Derrida

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world. Manly Palmer Hall

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular. Nate Silver

Delphic pronouncements Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

oracle of Delphi oracle reading oraclelike oracularity oracularly oracularness