sibylline

• Adjektiv, das etwas Geheimnisvolles, Prophetisches oder Orakelhaftes bezeichnet; oft auf Aussagen oder Andeutungen bezogen, die schwer zu deuten oder absichtlich vieldeutig sind.

An adjective meaning mysterious, prophetic, or oracular, often referring to something that is difficult to interpret or understand.

1. Prophetic or oracularC2formal

   Relating to or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; having the quality of foretelling the future.

   Prophetisch

   • The old woman's sibylline warnings were dismissed as superstition.
   • His sibylline utterances were later interpreted as predictions of the war.
   • The poem had a sibylline quality, hinting at events yet to come.

   Synonymedivinatorymanticoracularprescientpropheticvatic

2. Mysterious or enigmaticC2formal

   Having a secret or hidden meaning; obscure and difficult to understand.

   Rätselhaft

   • The ancient text contained sibylline passages that scholars still debate.
   • Her sibylline smile suggested she knew more than she was letting on.
   • The instructions were so sibylline that no one could follow them.

   Synonymeambiguouscrypticdelphicenigmaticinscrutablemysteriousobscureoracular

   Antonymeclearexplicitlucidobviousplainstraightforwardunambiguous