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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apocalyptic, augural, auguring, bigoted, conceited, divinatory, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, fatidic, forecasting, foreseeing, foretelling, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, mantic, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, peremptory, pontifical, positive, positivistic, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, pronunciative, prophetic, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise
Dictionary Results for oracular:
1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
      authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
      [1913 Webster]

            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.
      [1913 Webster]

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