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oracular
[ aw-rak-yuh-ler, oh-rak- ]
adjective
- of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle:
an oracular response.
Synonyms: prophetic
- giving forth utterances or decisions as if by special inspiration or authority.
Synonyms: dogmatic, authoritative
- uttered or delivered as if divinely inspired or infallible; sententious.
- ambiguous; obscure.
Synonyms: equivocal
- portentous; ominous.
oracular
/ ɒˈrækjʊlə /
adjective
- of or relating to an oracle
Apollo had his oracular shrine at Delphi
- wise and prophetic
an oracular political thriller
- mysterious or ambiguous
Derived Forms
- oˈracularly, adverb
Other Words From
- o·racu·lar·ly adverb
- o·rac·u·lar·i·ty [aw-rak-y, uh, -, lar, -i-tee, oh-rak-], o·racu·lar·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Above all, in times such as these, beware those who speak with oracular certainty.
They make the Court an oracular interpreter of the 225-year-old Constitution that serves as the most basic American law.
There was something oracular about that voice, something that sounded as old as time itself.
His comments are aphoristic or oracular, but often infused with wit.
Greenspan cultivated an oracular air, his utterances vague and technocratic yet hinting at shamanistic powers.
After this manifestation of spiritual presence, the priest within is prepared to give oracular responses.
Unreasonably to the others, Michael did not object very much to Wilmot's oracular addresses on the delights of youth.
"I would na be surprised," he observed with oracular amiability.
I suppose I remembered it for its oracular sound, and because I was not intended to listen.
"Nothing offends a woman so much as to be afraid of offending her," was her oracular reply, as she flitted over the sill.
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