oracular

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or relating to an oracle.

   • Ferguson's sin consisted in his oracular 'unmasking' of a 'second-rate sort of society, full of second rate citizens, pursuing comparatively worthless objects.'
2. 2

   Prophetic, foretelling the future.

   • And that slaughter to the Nation / Shall steam up like inspiration, / Eloquent, oracular; / A volcano heard afar.
   • It was one of those dire oracular pronouncements that Marko made from time to time, which were afterwards spread from mouth to mouth among the Serbs.
3. 3

   Wise, authoritative.

   • My Lord Chatham, whose wisdom his party in those days used to call superhuman, raised his oracular voice in the House of Peers against the American contest;
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   1. 4

      Ambiguous, hard to interpret.

      • Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately oracular.
      • This utterance was admirably oracular, being susceptible of cogent quotation by both sides[…]

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