revelatory

[ ri-vel-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, rev-uh-luh- ]

/ rɪˈvɛl əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈrɛv ə lə- /

of, relating to, or having the characteristics of revelation.

showing or disclosing an emotion, belief, quality, or the like (usually followed by of): a poem revelatory of the author's deep, personal sorrow.

Words nearby revelatory

1880–85; < Latin revēlāt(us) (see revelation) + -ory¹

When I read the story I thought it was revelatory and completely the opposite of what I thought the script to be.
Eddie Redmayne’s Time Has Come: On His Heartrending Turn as Stephen Hawking and Benedict Bromance|Marlow Stern|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The “favorite moments” section was cute, if not all that revelatory.
‘The View’ Reunited 11 Co-Hosts and Everyone Came Out Alive|Kevin Fallon|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the way of Aeneas, Bugs was possessed by a revelatory calling to found a great city.
The Stacks: Harold Conrad Was Many Things, But He Was Never, Ever Dull|Mark Jacobson|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When an undergraduate does something extraordinary and revelatory, my eyes do get wet.
Anthony Grafton: How I Write|Noah Charney|July 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST

That breakdown of dualism, that honesty, is so important and revelatory.
The Modern ‘Lolita’: Dramatizing the Mind of a Female Pedophile in Alissa Nutting’s ‘Tampa’|Roxane Gay|June 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His work was to have borne the title, "My Revelatory Episodes."
Delsarte System of Oratory|Various
These are full of variety and of actual novelty, now of startling discord, now of revelatory beauty.
Contemporary American Composers|Rupert Hughes
Then came the brusque apotheosis of 1904 at the Autumn Salon, the most revelatory of his unique gift thus far made.
Unicorns|James Huneker
In mounting excitement, he read the coldly beautiful, the terrible and revelatory poem through to the end.
What Rough Beast?|Jefferson Highe