ADJECTIVE | all | divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical | resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
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all | divinatory, conjectural, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious | based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence |
Meaning | resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy. | |
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Example | "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement" | |
Synonyms | mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical | |
Broader | prophetic, prophetical | foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention |
Spanish | adivinatorio, sibilino | |
Verbs | divine | perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers |
Meaning | Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence. | |
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Synonyms | conjectural, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious | |
Broader | theoretical, theoretic | concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations |
Spanish | adivinatorio, conjetural, hipotético, supositivo, supuesto | |
Catalan | hipotètic, supositiu |
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