oracular Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective of or relating to an oracle
    • able by oracular means to expose a witch
  2. adjective satellite obscurely prophetic
    Delphic.
    • Delphic pronouncements
    • an oracular message
  3. adjective satellite resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought
    enigmatic.
    • the oracular sayings of Victorian poets
    • so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it
    • an enigmatic smile

WordNet

O*rac"u*lar adjective
Etymology
L. oracularius. See Oracle.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913