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Adjectives (5)
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oracular
adj. of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to expose a witch"
enigmatic, oracular
adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"
Delphic, oracular
adj. obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular message"
Fuzzynyms (49)
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unclear
adj. not clear to the mind; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day"
bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy
adj. indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"
shadowy, wraithlike
adj. lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"
dark, obscure
adj. marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
cloudy, nebulose, nebulous
adj. lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"
cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid
adj. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
obscure, vague
adj. not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke
nebulous, unfixed
adj. lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen
dull, thudding
adj. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
indistinct
adj. not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"
illegible
adj. (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible; "illegible handwriting"
confusing, perplexing, puzzling
adj. lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
equivocal
adj. uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"
abstruse, deep, recondite
adj. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
veiled
adj. muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or foggy"
questionable, doubtful
adj. subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"
evasive
adj. deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying
adj. of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
Synonyms (30)
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double-barreled, double-barrelled
adj. having two purposes; twofold; "our double-barreled desire to make things profitable as well as attractive"- Louis Kronenbergers
double-edged
adj. capable of being interpreted in two usually contradictory ways; "double-edged praise"
left-handed
adj. ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
multivalent, multi-valued
adj. having many values, meanings, or appeals; "subtle, multivalent allegory"
polysemous, polysemantic
adj. of words; having many meanings
adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative
adj. indistinctly prophetic
apocalyptic
adj. of or relating to an apocalypse
clairvoyant, precognitive, second-sighted
adj. foreseeing the future
divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
adj. 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"
farseeing
adj. capable of seeing to a great distance
fateful, foreboding(a), portentous
adj. ominously prophetic
precursory, premonitory
adj. warning of future misfortune
predictive, prognostic, prognosticative
adj. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
Antonyms (1)
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definite
adj. known for certain; "it is definite that they have won"
oracular
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