divinatory

1. 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”

   Synonymsmanticsibyllinesibyllicvaticvatical

   Similarprophetic
2. 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”

   Synonymsconjecturalhypotheticalhypotheticsupposedsuppositionalsuppositioussupposititious

   Similartheoretical

Questions about divinatory

What does divinatory mean?

divinatory means "resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in divinatory?

divinatory has 5 syllables: di-vi-na-to-ry. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for divinatory?

Close synonyms include mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is divinatory a common word?

divinatory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.