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 oracular [ɔ'rækjəlɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 神谕的, 神谕似的, 谜似的, 玄妙深奥的



    oracular
    [ adj ]
    1. of or relating to an oracle

    2. <adj.pert>
      able by oracular means to expose a witch
    3. obscurely prophetic

    4. <adj.all>
      Delphic pronouncements
      an oracular message
    5. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought

    6. <adj.all>
      the oracular sayings of Victorian poets
      so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it
      an enigmatic smile


    Oracular \O*rac"u*lar\, a. [L. oracularius. See {Oracle}.]
    1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles;
    forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

    2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
    authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.

    They have something venerable and oracular in that
    unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
    --Pope.
    -- {O*rac"u*lar*ly}, adv. --
    {O*rac"u*lar*ness}, n.

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