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revelatory

US[ˈɹɛvələtoɹi]

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British[ɹɛvəˈlɛjtəɹi]

revelatory adjective: of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.

Adjective

revelatory (comparative more revelatory, superlative most revelatory)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.
    • Near-synonym: revealing
    • 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 2021
  2. Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic.

revelatory meaning in Bengali

revelatory in Bengali

প্রকাশিত হওয়ার প্রকৃতি, এ সম্পর্কিত, ভবিষ্যদ্বাণীমূলক, রহস্যোদ্ঘাটনকারী

Synonyms of revelatory

Antonyms

Forms of revelatory

comparativemore revelatory
superlativemost revelatory

Origin of revelatory

Borrowed from Latin revēlātōrius. By surface analysis, revelat(e) + -ory.

Words formed from revelatory

Questions about revelatory

What does revelatory mean?
Revelatory means of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.
What is revelatory in Bengali?
Revelatory in Bengali is প্রকাশিত হওয়ার প্রকৃতি, এ সম্পর্কিত, ভবিষ্যদ্বাণীমূলক. See Revelatory meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is revelatory?
Revelatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce revelatory?
Revelatory is pronounced [ɹɛvəˈlɛjtəɹi] (British).

Words near revelatory in the dictionary

  1. revelative
  2. revelator
  3. revelatorily
  4. revelatoriness
  5. revelators
  6. revelatory
  7. revelatrix
  8. reveled
  9. reveler
  10. revelers
  11. reveling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: revelatory (page history and authors); revelatory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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