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oracular
[ aw-rak-yuh-ler, oh-rak- ]
adjective
- of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle:
an oracular response.
Synonyms:
- giving forth utterances or decisions as if by special inspiration or authority.
Synonyms: ,
- uttered or delivered as if divinely inspired or infallible; sententious.
- ambiguous; obscure.
Synonyms:
- portentous; ominous.
oracular
/ ɒˈæʊə /
adjective
- of or relating to an oracle
Apollo had his oracular shrine at Delphi
- wise and prophetic
an oracular political thriller
- mysterious or ambiguous
Derived Forms
- ˈܱ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ·u·· adverb
- ·····ٲ [aw-rak-y, uh, -, lar, -i-tee, oh-rak-], ·u··Ա noun
yvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
She worked with a snake to put herself in an oracular trance.
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.”
I didn't want her to be an oracular character, or a fixer.
Kusama took on an oracular aspect in the dark as she spoke.
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.
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