adjective
- Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
- usage: "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
- Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.
- usage: "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"
- synonyms: conjectural, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
| APA | WordNet. (2010). divinatory. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/divinatory/definitions/1172726 |
| Chicago | WordNet. 2010. "divinatory" http://smartdefine.org/divinatory/definitions/1172726 (accessed September 20, 2026). |
| Harvard | WordNet 2010, divinatory, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/divinatory/definitions/1172726>. |
| MLA | WordNet. "divinatory" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/divinatory/definitions/1172726> |