oracular

oracular
    adj 1: of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to
           expose a witch"
    2: obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular
       message" [syn: {Delphic}, {oracular}]
    3: resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular
       sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might
       have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: {enigmatic},
       {oracular}]
    

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.
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   2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
      authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
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            They have something venerable and oracular in that
            unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
                                                  --Pope.
      [1913 Webster] -- {O*rac"u*lar*ly}, adv. --
      {O*rac"u*lar*ness}, n.
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45 Moby Thesaurus words for "oracular":
      apocalyptic, augural, auguring, bigoted, conceited, divinatory,
      doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, fatidic,
      forecasting, foreseeing, foretelling, forewarning, fortunetelling,
      haruspical, mantic, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned,
      peremptory, pontifical, positive, positivistic, predictional,
      predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, presageful,
      presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic,
      prognosticative, pronunciative, prophetic, self-opinionated,
      self-opinioned, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory,
      weather-wise