Meanings
comparative more revelatory · superlative most revelatory
- Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.
Near-synonym: revealing
1 more example
I first sipped an El Presidente fifteen years ago, in Havana, at a sidewalk café across from a vendor selling postcards of Che Guevara. It was revelatory.
December 2019/January 2020, Wayne Curtis, “Discover Cuba’s Other Rum Cocktail: El Presidente”, in Garden & Gun, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021Synonyms: revelative, revealing · Antonyms: unrevelatory, unrevealing
- Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(usually followed by ‘of’) pointing out or revealing clearly
adjectiveprophetic of devastation or ultimate doom
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinrevēlātōrius
- Englishrevelatory
Borrowed from Latin revēlātōrius. By surface analysis, revelat(e) + -ory.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
revelatory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revelatory
“revelatory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revelatory. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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