insightful
[in-sahyt-fuh l]
- characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
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Origin of insightful
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Examples from the Web for insightful
Contemporary Examples
Overall, The Judge wants to be insightful and funny and sad, but it instead ends up being clichéd and redundant.
His novel The Last Magazine, published posthumously this month, is just like him: blistering, fun, insightful, and profane.
But it is a fine, insightful, and often quite challenging version of that myth.
The comments section filled with many angry, often insightful responses, some of which Frazier responded to personally.
The most insightful contribution Bordo makes to our understanding of bodily Anne is in a passage discussing her death.
Historical Examples
As if she had been guilty of thoughts too insightful, Mrs. Pendyce blushed.
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Word Origin and History for insightful
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