Definition for Divinatory:

• 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 for Divinatory:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • divinatory.
  •conjectural (adjective)
  • speculative.
  •fatidic (adjective)
  • more sibyllic,
  • most sibyllic.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • foreshadowing,
  • prophetical,
  • Vaticinal,
  • Pythonic,
  • mantic,
  • prophetic,
  • sibyllic,
  • vatic,
  • vatical,
  • Augural,
  • Fatidical,
  • fatidic.
  •n.
  • anticipant,
  • anticipatory,
  • apocalyptic,
  • clairvoyant,
  • conjectural,
  • farseeing,
  • farsighted,
  • forecasting,
  • forehanded,
  • foresighted,
  • foretelling,
  • forethoughtful,
  • forewarning,
  • hypothetic,
  • hypothetical,
  • intuitive,
  • longsighted,
  • oracular,
  • precognitive,
  • predictive,
  • prefigurative,
  • prepared,
  • prescient,
  • prognostic,
  • prognosticative,
  • provident,
  • providential,
  • prudent,
  • ready,
  • sagacious,
  • sibylline,
  • supposed,
  • suppositional,
  • suppositious,
  • supposititious,
  • theoretic,
  • theoretical,
  • Auguring,
  • Foreknowing,
  • fortunetelling,
  • Predictional,
  • Predictory,
  • Prefiguring,
  • Presageful,
  • Presaging,
  • Presignifying,
  • foreseeing,
  • Weather-wise,
  • forethoughted,
  • precognizant,
  • haruspical,
  • presignificative,
  • vaticinatory.

Antonyms for Divinatory:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    empirical, empiric, unprophetic.

Divinatory Sentence Examples:

• The games were partly, sometimes wholly, diversional, but generally they were in large part divinatory, and thus reflected the hazardous occupations and low culture - status of the people.

• Ancient Mexico thus furnishes us with an interesting and instructive explanation of the origin of divinatory practices, prognostication at birth, etc.

Homophones for Divinatory:

• defamatory, debenture, defender.