divinatory s resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy the high priest's divinatory pronouncement s based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence Usage(s) To this pack of 56 were added a further 22 divinatory images the Tower, the Hanged Man, the Fool (who is the ancestor of the modern Joker) and so on. Synonym(s) mantic sibylline sibyllic vatic vatical conjectural hypothetical hypothetic supposed suppositional suppositious supposititious