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English adjective: divinatory

1. divinatory 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.


Synonymsmantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical


Similarprophetic, prophetical


Antonymsunprophetic

2. divinatory based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence


SamplesTheories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural.
The supposed reason for his absence.
Suppositious reconstructions of dead languages.
Hypothetical situation.


Synonymsconjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious


Similartheoretic, theoretical


Antonymsempirical, empiric









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