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revelational

revelational

7.7
Making new important facts known about people or groups
  • adjective
  • /ˌrɛvɪˈleɪʃənl/
translation icon : revelador
  • The author's revelational insights about societal issues sparked a lively discussion among the readers.

Examples

  • I'd like to demonstrate one which I think you'll find revelational.

  • The revelational question is not solely epistemological.

    Academic text (1992)
  • I would also say that experience is the best available noun in United States English to follow the words revelational or revelatory.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Machiavelli's method, evidently, worked, but at the cost of the rational and revelational virtues.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Even with the revelational possibility of repentance, he did not see many evident signs that this repentance was a popular or frequent activity among sinful people.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Reading the report was revelational, providing us with important facts we had previously overlooked.

  • Her revelational discoveries in science revealed new methods for combating climate change.

Synonyms

enlightening
vsrevelational
43 4.5

Helps you understand something in a new, clearer way

brings out new important facts rather than only improving understanding
revealing
vsrevelational
38 4.0

Showing information or parts that were hidden before

is about exposing important new information rather than general disclosure
revelatory
vsrevelational
9 7.3

Showing facts people did not know before

is focused on bringing important new facts to light often nonreligious
epiphanic
vsrevelational
1 9.4

Sudden moment when you understand something clearly

causes fresh important information to be revealed not just inner insight
disclosive
vsrevelational
8.1

Tends to reveal information

directly brings significant new information into view often nonreligious

How Revealing

revelational
7.7
illuminating
17 4.3
informative
94 3.5

Surface Forms

revelational positive

Morphology

revelational = revelation (semi-transparent) = reveal + ation + al

The word is built transparently from 'revelation' + '-al', but this sense is a slightly extended and specialized use meaning 'bringing to light'.

Etymology

Revelational comes from the verb reveal, which comes from the idea of taking off a veil and making something 'visible'. So a revelational report or comment is one that brings hidden facts into the light.