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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of or relating to an oracle;
- Example: "able by oracular means to expose a witch"

2. obscurely prophetic;
- Example: "Delphic pronouncements"
- Example: "an oracular message"
[syn: Delphic, oracular]

3. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought;
- Example: "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"
- Example: "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"
- Example: "an enigmatic smile"
[syn: enigmatic, oracular]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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