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sibylline

The adjective sibylline means "having a secret meaning" or "foretelling the future," like a fortune teller whose crystal ball reveals a sibylline message about what will happen.

If you can predict the meaning of the word sibylline, you may come from a family of psychics — or you may have a background in Greek mythology. The word has origins in the Greek word Sibulla, meaning "prophetess." Back in the times of the Greeks and Romans, a sibyl was a female oracle who delivered cryptic prophecies foretelling the future, often inspired by the deities. The adjective sibylline describes such talents or the messages they reveal.

DEFINITIONS OF: sibylline

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adj resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy

“a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions”
Synonyms:
divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
prophetic, prophetical
foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

adj having a secret or hidden meaning

“"thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther”
Synonyms:
cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic
esoteric
confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
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