divinatory
1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
- the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
- mantic powers
- a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
• Syn:
mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
• Similar to:
prophetic, prophetical
• Derivationally related forms:
sibyl (for: sibyllic), divine
2. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
- theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
- the supposed reason for his absence
- suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
- hypothetical situation
• Syn:
conjectural, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional,
suppositious, supposititious
• Similar to:
theoretical, theoretic
• Derivationally related forms:
supposition (for: supposititious), supposition (for: suppositious), supposition (for: suppositional), hypothesis (for: hypothetical), conjecture (for: conjectural)
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