oracular UK /ɒɹˈæk.juː.lə/US /ɔˈɹæk.ju.lɚ/ adjective4 •Of or relating to an oracle.Ferguson's sin consisted in his oracular 'unmasking' of a 'second-rate sort of society, full of second rate citizens, pursuing comparatively worthless objects.' — 2006 •Prophetic, foretelling the future.And that slaughter to the Nation / Shall steam up like inspiration, / Eloquent, oracular; / A volcano heard afar. — 1819 •Wise, authoritative.My Lord Chatham, whose wisdom his party in those days used to call superhuman, raised his oracular voice in the House of Peers against the American contest — 1844 •Ambiguous, hard to interpret.Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately oracular. — 1754