divinatory

Adjective
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy (synset 301888853)
    "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
    similar to: prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
    same as: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical
  2. Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence (synset 300864403)
    "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"
    similar to: theoretic, theoretical - concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations
    same as: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious

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