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# oracular

adjective

«oracular» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Oracular means like an oracle: giving wise-sounding answers or predictions that are often hard to understand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oracular/#m1)

### In the lessons

in fairy tales and myths, a wise voice gives oracular answers that may come true in a strange way

### Examples

- The old woman gave an oracular reply. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oracular/#x1)
- The prophecy was oracular and puzzling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oracular/#x2)
- His oracular words left everyone thinking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oracular/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «oracular» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oracular/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«oracular» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/oracular.html) on Mova free.