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Definition of sibylline in English: sibyllineadjectiveˈsɪbɪlʌɪn literary Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious. one glimpses them, uttering sibylline predictions of weal and woe his fascinating, if sometimes sibylline, meditations on the nation Example sentencesExamples - The girl's sibylline countenance unnerved viewers who, as one critic put it, were almost ‘repelled by the directness and force of the painting.’
- Mrs Atwater, in sibylline style, predicts of Philip: ‘These hands will bring you great fame.’
- This is how Australians looked to the sibylline travel writer Jan Morris in the 1980s.
- It's confessional and ruminative, yet also clipped, ‘teacherly’ and sibylline.
- Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
Synonyms puzzling, strange, peculiar, curious, funny, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, mystifying, inexplicable, baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, uncanny, dark, impenetrable, incomprehensible, unexplainable, unfathomable, delphic, unaccountable, insoluble, obscure
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin Sibillinus, from Sibylla sibyl. Definition of sibylline in US English: sibyllineadjective literary Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious. one glimpses them, uttering sibylline predictions of weal and woe his fascinating, if sometimes sibylline, meditations on the nation Example sentencesExamples - It's confessional and ruminative, yet also clipped, ‘teacherly’ and sibylline.
- The girl's sibylline countenance unnerved viewers who, as one critic put it, were almost ‘repelled by the directness and force of the painting.’
- Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
- This is how Australians looked to the sibylline travel writer Jan Morris in the 1980s.
- Mrs Atwater, in sibylline style, predicts of Philip: ‘These hands will bring you great fame.’
Synonyms puzzling, strange, peculiar, curious, funny, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, mystifying, inexplicable, baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, uncanny, dark, impenetrable, incomprehensible, unexplainable, unfathomable, delphic, unaccountable, insoluble, obscure
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin Sibillinus, from Sibylla sibyl. |