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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of or relating to an oracle;
- Example: "able by oracular means to expose a witch"

2. obscurely prophetic;
- Example: "Delphic pronouncements"
- Example: "an oracular message"
[syn: Delphic, oracular]

3. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought;
- Example: "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"
- Example: "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"
- Example: "an enigmatic smile"
[syn: enigmatic, oracular]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Oracular \O*rac"u*lar\, a. [L. oracularius. See Oracle.]
   1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles;
      forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
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   2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
      authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
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            They have something venerable and oracular in that
            unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
                                                  --Pope.
      [1913 Webster] -- O*rac"u*lar*ly, adv. --
      O*rac"u*lar*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

oracular
    adj 1: of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to
           expose a witch"
    2: obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular
       message" [syn: Delphic, oracular]
    3: resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular
       sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might
       have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: enigmatic,
       oracular]