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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

divinatory
    adj 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: divinatory,
           mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]
    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, divinatory,
       hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional,
       suppositious, supposititious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.]
   Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory
   instinct." --Cowley.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for divinatory:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

anticipant, anticipatory, apocalyptic, augural, auguring, clairvoyant, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, forecasting, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, foretelling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, intuitive, longsighted, mantic, oracular, precognitive, precognizant, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, prophetic, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise

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