revelatory

[ ri-vel-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, rev-uh-luh- ]

/ rɪˈvɛl əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈrɛv ə lə- /

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.

Origin of revelatory

1880–85; < Latin revēlāt(us) (see revelation) + -ory¹

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 Bromance |Marlow Stern |November 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The “favorite moments” section was cute, if not all that revelatory.

‘The View’ Reunited 11 Co-Hosts and Everyone Came Out Alive |Kevin Fallon |May 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In the way of Aeneas, Bugs was possessed by a revelatory calling to found a great city.

The Stacks: Harold Conrad Was Many Things, But He Was Never, Ever Dull |Mark Jacobson |March 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
When an undergraduate does something extraordinary and revelatory, my eyes do get wet.

Anthony Grafton: How I Write |Noah Charney |July 17, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

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 |DAILY BEAST
His work was to have borne the title, "My Revelatory Episodes."

Delsarte System of Oratory |Various
These are full of variety and of actual novelty, now of startling discord, now of revelatory beauty.

Contemporary American Composers |Rupert Hughes
Then came the brusque apotheosis of 1904 at the Autumn Salon, the most revelatory of his unique gift thus far made.

Unicorns |James Huneker
In mounting excitement, he read the coldly beautiful, the terrible and revelatory poem through to the end.

What Rough Beast? |Jefferson Highe