'Divinatory' definitions:
Definition of 'divinatory'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Divinatory'
From: GCIDE
- Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.] Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'divinatory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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