| Main Entry: | sibylline |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
Synonyms: |
Delphian, apocalyptic, augural, divinatory, divinitory, fatidic, fatidical, foreshadowing, mantic, occult, oracular, predictive, presaging, prescient, prognostic, prophetical, pythonic, vatic, vatical, vaticinal, veiled, visionary |
| Notes: | sibylline is prophetic in a mysterious fashion; orphic is mystic, esoteric, or entrancing |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intuitive, psychic |
Synonyms: |
clear-sighted, discerning, extrasensory, far-sighted, farseeing, fey, judicious, long-sighted, new age, oracular, penetrating, perceptive, prescient, prophetic, second-sighted, sibylline, spiritualistic, telepathic, vatic, visionary |
| Main Entry: | deep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abstract, complicated in meaning |
Synonyms: |
Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, abstruse, acute, arcane, complex, concealed, difficult, discerning, esoteric, hard to understand, heavy*, hermetic, hidden, incisive, intricate, learned, mysterious, obscure, occult, penetrating, profound, recondite, sagacious, secret, serious, wise |
Antonyms: |
frivolous, ignorant, shallow, superficial, trivial, unintelligent |
| Main Entry: | enigmatic/enigmatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious |
Synonyms: |
Delphian, Sibylline, ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, sphinxlike, stickling, stumping, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible |
Antonyms: |
clear, obvious, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | esoteric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, obscure |
Synonyms: |
Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, abstruse, acroamatic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner, inscrutable, mystic, mystical, occult, private, profound, recondite, secret |
| Notes: | eclectic means selecting what seems best of various styles, methods, or ideas while esoteric means intended for and understandable by only a small knowledgeable group |
Antonyms: |
common, familiar, known, obvious, public, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | impenetrable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incomprehensible |
Synonyms: |
Delphic, arcane, baffling, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, enigmatical, hidden, incognizable, indiscernible, inexplicable, inscrutable, mysterious, mystic, obscure, sibylline, unaccountable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable |
Antonyms: |
comprehensible, intelligible, penetrable, understandable |
| Main Entry: | incomprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not understandable |
Synonyms: |
Delphic, Greek, baffling, beats me, beyond comprehension, beyond one's grasp, clear as mud, cryptic, enigmatic, fathomless, impenetrable, incognizable, inconceivable, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying, obscure, opaque, over one's head, perplexing, puzzling, sibylline, unclear, unfathomable, ungraspable, unimaginable, unintelligible, unknowable |
Antonyms: |
comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable |
| Main Entry: | oracular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
Synonyms: |
Delphian, ambiguous, anticipating, apocalyptic, arcane, auguring, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, discovering, divining, divulging, dogmatic, fatidic, foreboding, forecasting, foretelling, imperious, interpretive, mantic, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portending, portentous, positive, predicting, presaging, prescient, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sage, secret, sibylline, significant, soothsaying, vague, vatic, venerable, wise |
| Main Entry: | prophetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling of the future |
Synonyms: |
Delphian, apocalyptic, augural, divinatory, fatidic, foreshadowing, mantic, occult, oracular, predictive, presaging, prescient, prognostic, prophetical, pythonic, sibylline, vaticinal, veiled |
| Main Entry: | augural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
Synonyms: |
divinatory, fatidic, fatidical, foreshadowing, mantic, ominous, oracular, predictive, presaging, prophetical, sibylline, telling, vatic, vatical, visionary |