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oracular
adjective as in prophetic
Weak matches
- ambiguous
- anticipating
- apocalyptic
- arcane
- auguring
- auspicious
- authoritative
- cabalistic
- clairvoyant
- cryptic
- 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
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Example Sentences
She worked with a snake to put herself in an oracular trance.
From Scientific American
As he explained of his nom de plume, in typically oracular fashion: “One is a beginning and two is the next step. Two is forever.”
From New York Times
I didn't want her to be an oracular character, or a fixer.
From Salon
Kusama took on an oracular aspect in the dark as she spoke.
From New York Times
Pride and relief because full visibility and unapologetic citizenship are after all what the landmark works of the old queer theater, culminating with the oracular “Angels in America” in 1991, prepared us to want.
From New York Times
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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