adjective
1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
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the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
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mantic powers
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a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
• Similar to: ↑prophetic, ↑prophetical
2. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
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theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
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the supposed reason for his absence
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suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
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hypothetical situation
• Syn:
• Similar to: ↑theoretical, ↑theoretic
• Derivationally related forms: ↑supposition (for: ↑supposititious), ↑supposition (for: ↑suppositious), ↑supposition (for: ↑suppositional), ↑hypothesis (for: ↑hypothetical), ↑conjecture (for: ↑conjectural)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.