Synonyms of oracles

oracles

noun

plural of oracle

as in diviners

a person who can tell what will happen in the future

The oracle told him to not make any major life decisions this month.

Related Words

• diviners
• prophets
• mystics
• sibyls
• forecasters
• seers
• soothsayers
• fortune-tellers
• prophetesses
• foretellers
• prognosticators
• augurs
• futurists
• Jeremiahs
• visionaries
• astrologers
• foreseers
• palmists
• prophesiers
• wisewomen
• crystal gazers
• Cassandras
• doomsayers
• doomsdayers
• rhabdomancers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of oracles

Anthropologists find that oracles and divination commonly use techniques that generate random outcomes. — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

All of them are concerned with legacy, particularly among fathers and daughters (Shakespeare had two and lost his only son), and all of them touch a realm beyond the mundane — a place of gods and dreams, oracles and enchantment. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026

The loudest of those skeptics still get treated as oracles, even as the downside bets behind them quietly decay toward nothing. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Back in the ’90s, videos about computer chips and global warming serve as oracles. — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 June 2026

During the formative phase of the infant American republic, when its survival was still problematic, iconic founders performed a valuable function as reliable sources of unquestioned wisdom, a veritable gallery of Delphic oracles available on demand. — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025

For example, while experts use chatbots as collaboration tools—riffing on ideas, clarifying intuitions—novices often treat them mistakenly as automation tools, oracles that speak from a bottomless well of knowledge. — David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025

And this desire for control, for some method to be brought to bear on the sinister uncertainty of life, explains also my susceptibility to oracles like the Yijing. — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025