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English adjective: sibylline

1. sibylline resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy


SamplesThe high priest's divinatory pronouncement.
Mantic powers.
A kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions.


Synonymsdivinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical


Similarprophetic, prophetical


Antonymsunprophetic

2. sibylline having a secret or hidden meaning


SamplesCabalistic symbols engraved in stone.
Cryptic writings.
Thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements.


Synonymscabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic


Similaresoteric


Antonymsexoteric









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