- divinatory
- adjective1. 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
• Similar to: ↑prophetic, ↑prophetical2. 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:• Similar to: ↑theoretical, ↑theoretic• Derivationally related forms: ↑supposition (for: ↑supposititious), ↑supposition (for: ↑suppositious), ↑supposition (for: ↑suppositional), ↑hypothesis (for: ↑hypothetical), ↑conjecture (for: ↑conjectural)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.