resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; the high priests divinatory pronouncement; mantic powers; a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions

[ Syn: mantic , sibylline , sibyllic , vatic , vatical ]

based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural; the supposed reason for his absence; suppositious reconstructions of dead languages; hypothetical situation

[ Syn: conjectural , hypothetical , hypothetic , supposed , suppositional , suppositious , supposititious ]