Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or containing a revelation: "the distinction between Mrs. and Miss and its concomitant revelatory features” ( Mario Pei).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the nature or character of a revelation.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation
- adj. Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
- adj. prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom
Examples
“The most revelatory is I Am an American Soldier: One Year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne.”
“(I also agree that the police, corporately and at the higher echelons, have lost sight of what matters; but this isn’t revelatory, is it?)”
“She has still put it together in revelatory ways, underscoring the generation-wide impact of her subjects’ songs and stories ....”
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“William McNeil, Plagues & Peoples: This had a kind of revelatory quality to me, the idea that everything you thought was important about history was actually kind of trivial and the real determinants of human destiny are something else entirely.”
“Interviewer Ryan Tubridy sought the advice of Jon Snow ahead of the interview but was warned it would be difficult to extract anything 'revelatory' out of Tony Blair.”
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“As for John Leech's office - are you expecting some kind of revelatory comment from me on that?”
“Here's a quiet little poem by one of my favorite poets, Eamon Grennan, which demonstrates, in its patient, painterly way, how an accumulation of sense-based details can develop a kind of revelatory momentum.”
“The latter half of Cult of Flesh is basically a series of sexual encounters that are "revelatory" in the worst sense--in the sense that they prompt the characters to spout long passages at each other that blend faux-Satanism with poor paraphrases of Norman O.”
“In other words, I don't find that seamy or steamy sex plays the kind of revelatory role to which so many authors assign it.”
“Rather, we are thrown back on the claims of his first disciples that they had some kind of revelatory experiences ( "appearances") that convinced them that Jesus was alive.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘revelatory’.
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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