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oracular

 
(ô-răk'yə-lər, ō-răk'-) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or being an oracle.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of an oracle:
    1. Solemnly prophetic.
    2. Enigmatic; obscure.

[From Latin ōrāculum, oracle, from ōrāre, to speak.]

oracularity o·rac'u·lar'i·ty (-lăr'ĭ-tē) n.
oracularly o·rac'u·lar·ly adv.

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    Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means: augural, divinitory, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, prophetic, sibylline, vatic, vatical, vaticinal, visionary. See foresight.

 
 
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Roget's Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 byHoughton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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