oracular

Questions about oracular

What does oracular mean?

oracular means "of or relating to an oracle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oracular?

oracular has 4 syllables and divides as o-ra-cu-lar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for oracular?

Close synonyms include Delphic, enigmatic. 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 oracular a common word?

oracular 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.