divinatory > define
adjective
- Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
- usage: "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
- Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.
- usage: "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"
- synonyms: conjectural, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious
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