Those oracular Chinese proverbs were confusing for the students.
Source: tatoeba (6145615)
Oracular
//ɔˈɹæk.ju.lɚ//
Synonyms for "oracular" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Related words (31)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χρηστήριος adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Armenian
3 entries- առեղծվածային adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
- հանելուկային adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
- մարգարեական adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Bulgarian
2 entries- двусмислен adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
- пророчески adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Catalan
1 entries- oracular adj (of or relating to an oracle)
Dutch
3 entries- orakelachtig adj (of or relating to an oracle)
- profetisch adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
- raadselachtig adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
Finnish
3 entries- oraakkelimainen adj (of or relating to an oracle)
- oraakkelimainen adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
- oraakkelimainen adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
French
1 entries- oraculaire adj (of or relating to an oracle)
German
4 entries- orakelhaft adj (of or relating to an oracle)
- orakelhaft adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
- orakelmäßig adj (of or relating to an oracle)
- orakelmäßig adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Greek
4 entries- αινιγματικός adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
- αμφίσημος adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
- μαντικός adj (of or relating to an oracle)
- προφητικός adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- zwěšćelowarski adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Portuguese
2 entries- oracular adj (of or relating to an oracle)
- oracular adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Russian
4 entries- ве́щий adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
- двусмы́сленный adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
- зага́дочный adj (ambiguous, hard to interpret)
- пророческий adj (prophetic, foretelling the future)
Spanish
1 entries- oracular adj (of or relating to an oracle)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
In East and West alike there are oracular wells inhabited by spirits gifted with powers of divination.
Source: tatoeba (11559303)
In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same oracular power to a large black stone by the sea-shore, which they approached with certain solemnities, and considered the first fancy which came into their own minds, after they did so, to be the undoubted dictate of the tutelar deity of the stone, and, as such, to be, if possible, punctually complied with.
Source: wiktionary
Ferguson's sin consisted in his oracular 'unmasking' of a 'second-rate sort of society, full of second rate citizens, pursuing comparatively worthless objects.'
Source: wiktionary
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