oracularEnglishOxford American Thesaurusoracular adjective 1 his every utterance was given oracular significance by his fans: prophetic, prophetical, sibylline, predictive, prescient, prognostic, divinatory, augural; rare vatic, mantic, fatidical, fatidic, haruspical, pythonic. 2 his hesitation and oracular responses are not good advertisements for privatization: enigmatic, cryptic, abstruse, unclear, obscure, confusing, mystifying, puzzling, perplexing, baffling, mysterious, arcane; ambiguous, equivocal, two-edged, Delphic.