| 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: | 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: | cryptic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret; obscure in meaning |
Synonyms: |
Delphian, Delphic, abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, hidden, incomprehensible, inexplicable, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear, unfathomable, uninformative, vague, veiled |
| Notes: | cryptic coloration helps conceal an animal; phaneric coloration makes an animal stand out |
Antonyms: |
clear, obvious, plain, seen, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | dogmatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | based on absolute truth |
Synonyms: |
a priori, as a matter of course, assertive, authoritarian, authoritative, axiomatic, by fiat, by natural law, by nature, canonical, categorical, deducible, deductive, derivable, doctrinaire, doctrinal, eternal, excathedra, formal, imperative, inevitable, on faith, oracular, orthodox, peremptory, positive, pragmatic, prophetic, reasoned, systematic, theoretical, unchangeable, unerring, unqualified |
Antonyms: |
ambiguous, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, indecisive, not positive, uncertain, vacillating |
| 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: | mysterious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, concealed |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, alchemistic, arcane, astrological, baffling, cabalistic, covert, cryptic, curious, dark, difficult, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable, insoluble, magical, mystical, mystifying, necromantic, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, sphinxlike, spiritual, strange, subjective, symbolic, transcendental, uncanny, unfathomable, unknowable, unknown, unnatural, veiled, weird |
Antonyms: |
apparent, known, obvious, plain, public, straightforward, tangible, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | obscure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out-of-the-way, little-known |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, arcane, blind, cabalistic, close, covered, cryptic, dark, deep, devious, distant, enigmatic, esoteric, far, far-off, hidden, humble, inaccessible, inconspicuous, inglorious, invisible, irrelevant, lonesome, lowly, minor, mysterious, nameless, odd, oracular, orphic, rare, recondite, remote, removed, reticent, retired, secluded, secret, secretive, seldom seen, sequestered, solitary, undisclosed, undistinguished, unheard-of, unhonored, unimportant, unknown, unnoted, unseen, unsung |
Antonyms: |
distinguished, famous, known |
| Main Entry: | opinionated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believing very strongly and conveying it |
Synonyms: |
adamant, arbitrary, assertive, biased, bigoted, bossy, bullheaded, cocksure, cocky*, conceited, dictatorial, doctrinaire, dogmatic, hard-line, high-handed, inflexible, intransigent, locked in, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, oracular, overbearing, pigheaded, positive, pragmatic, pragmatical, prejudiced, self-assertive, set in stone, set-on, single-minded, stubborn, tilted, uncompromising, unyielding, weighted |
Antonyms: |
compromising, indifferent, open-minded |
| 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: | questionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, uncertain |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, apocryphal, arguable, contingent, controversial, controvertible, cryptic, debatable, disputable, dubious, dubitable, enigmatic, equivocal, fishy, hard to believe, hypothetical, iffy, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, moot, mysterious, obscure, occult, open to doubt, open to question, oracular, paradoxical, problematic, problematical, provisional, shady, suspect, suspicious, unconfirmed, undefined, under advisement, under examination, unproven, unreliable, unsettled, vague |
Antonyms: |
certain, definite, indisputable, proven, sure, undoubted, unquestionable |