Synonyms for oracular
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : aw-rak-yuh-ler, oh-rak- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈræk yə lər, oʊˈræk- |
Top 10 synonyms for oracular
- Delphian
- discovering
- divining
- divulging
- dogmatic
- fatidic
- foreboding
- forecasting
- foretelling
- imperious
- interpretive
- mantic
- mysterious
- mystical
- obscure
- occult
- ominous
- peremptory
- portending
- portentous
- positive
- predicting
- presaging
- prescient
- proclaiming
- prognosticating
- prophesying
- sage
- secret
- sibylline
- significant
- soothsaying
- vague
- vatic
- venerable
- wise
Définition of oracular
Origin :- 1670s, from Latin oraculum (see oracle) + -ar.
- adj prophetic
- It assumes to be prophetical, and its utterances are oracular.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- "Anybody can do it, when once they know how," so ran this oracular document.
- Extract from : « A Tangled Tale » by Lewis Carroll
- And Marion delivered this speech with a most oracular and pretentious tone.
- Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
- "You are neither of you right, as usual," said little Potts, in his oracular way.
- Extract from : « Potts's Painless Cure » by Edward Bellamy
- Margaret was oracular and mysterious, and looked like a thundercloud.
- Extract from : « Daisy » by Elizabeth Wetherell
- His method is gnomic, laconic, oracular; never persuasive or plausible.
- Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
- "We're all like we're made," sounded the oracular accents of Mr. Peebles.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1919 » by Various
- "I would na be surprised," he observed with oracular amiability.
- Extract from : « That Lass O' Lowrie's » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- I suppose I remembered it for its oracular sound, and because I was not intended to listen.
- Extract from : « The Heir of Redclyffe » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Yet her journey had the sanction of Eugenia's concurrence; and Eugenia seemed to her oracular.
- Extract from : « Camilla » by Fanny Burney
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