revelatory
[ri-vel-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, rev-uh-luh-]
- 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.
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Origin of revelatory
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Related Words
instructional, gossipy, descriptive, enlightening, instructive, explanatory, illuminating, chatty, revealing, informational, thoughtful, vivid, colorful, striking, eloquent, poignant, articulate, suggestive, dramatic, artisticExamples from the Web for revelatory
Contemporary Examples
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 BromanceMarlow Stern
November 3, 2014
The “favorite moments” section was cute, if not all that revelatory.
In the way of Aeneas, Bugs was possessed by a revelatory calling to found a great city.
When an undergraduate does something extraordinary and revelatory, my eyes do get wet.
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
Historical Examples
His work was to have borne the title, "My Revelatory Episodes."
Delsarte System of OratoryVarious
In mounting excitement, he read the coldly beautiful, the terrible and revelatory poem through to the end.
What Rough Beast?Jefferson Highe
Then came the brusque apotheosis of 1904 at the Autumn Salon, the most revelatory of his unique gift thus far made.
UnicornsJames Huneker
These are full of variety and of actual novelty, now of startling discord, now of revelatory beauty.
Contemporary American ComposersRupert Hughes
Word Origin and History for revelatory
adj.
1882; see revelation + -ory.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper