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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy;
- Example: "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"
- Example: "mantic powers"
- Example: "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
[syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]

2. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
- Example: "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"
- Example: "the supposed reason for his absence"
- Example: "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"
- Example: "hypothetical situation"
[syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.] Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

divinatory adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical] 2: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "divinatory": anticipant, anticipatory, apocalyptic, augural, auguring, clairvoyant, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, forecasting, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, foretelling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, intuitive, longsighted, mantic, oracular, precognitive, precognizant, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, prophetic, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise