divinatory meaning and definition

DIVINATORY adjective

Definition of divinatory (adjective)

1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
   • "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
   • synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical
2. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
   • "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, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious