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  1. Vague or obscure

    ambiguous, mysterious, cryptic; see obscure 1, 3, vague 2.

  2. Prophetic

    prescient, soothsaying, foretelling, prophesying, forecasting, predicting, presaging, foreboding, auguring, augural, precursory, portending, prognosticating, discovering, divining, foreknowing, foreseeing, clairvoyant, divulging, anticipating, apprehending, declaring, proclaiming, fatidic, occult, sibylline, vaticinal, vatic, interpretive; see also mysterious 2.

    Antonyms objective*, scientific, realistic.

  3. Authoritative

    dogmatic, peremptory, imperious; see authoritative 2.

See oracular in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


adjective

Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means:

augural, divinitory, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, prophetic, sibylline, vatic, vatical, vaticinal, visionary. See foresight

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