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DIVINATORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does divinatory mean?
• DIVINATORY (adjective)
The adjective DIVINATORY has 2 senses:
1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
2. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
Familiarity information: DIVINATORY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
Synonyms:
divinatory; mantic; sibyllic; sibylline; vatic; vatical
Context example:
a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
Derivation:
divine (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
Synonyms:
conjectural; divinatory; hypothetic; hypothetical; supposed; suppositional; suppositious; supposititious
Context example:
hypothetical situation
Similar:
theoretic; theoretical (concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations)
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