sibylline meaning and definition

SIBYLLINE adjective

Definition of sibylline (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: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
2. having a secret or hidden meaning
   • "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
   • synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic