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insightful

insightful \insightful\ adj.

  1. having intellectual depth; having or showing an exceptional degree of insight[2]; -- of people or their comments.

    Syn: thoughtful.

  2. characterized by sympathetic understanding.

    Syn: discerning, understanding.

  3. having a keen intellect.

    Syn: prehensile.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
insightful

1881, from insight + -ful. Related: Insightfully; insightfulness.

Wiktionary
insightful

a. Possessing insight.

WordNet
insightful

adj. exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception; "an insightful parent"; "the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives"-R.C.Angell

Usage examples of "insightful".

Writing Group, for their insightful critiques of scenes: Aly Parsons, Simcha Kuritzky, Connie Warner, Al Carroll, and J.

When the meeting was over, he thanked Genji for his insightful comments on the present crisis, apologized for his inability to control the impetuous Great Lord of Yoshino, and moved immediately to execute the decisions of the council with which he had been entrusted.

The preliminary calculations Plesser and I had done, together with insightful discussions with David Morrison, a mathematician from Duke University, made it seem that this was the only conclusion that mirror symmetry naturally supported.

While many of the other landholders had flocked to assure Tharion of their loyalty, Franz Dokken had been there all along, giving him insightful advice on the new burdens he would have to bear.

Michael said, "you'll be able to amaze your friends with insightful comments about their personalities, just from knowing their birthdates.

But I was smart enough and insightful enough -- at least into my own soul -- to know for certain that this one love had been enough for my lifetime, and while I grew to realize -- as the days and weeks and then, almost certainly, months passed in my death cell with no arrival of death -- that if I somehow miraculously returned to the universe of the living I would seek out joy and laughter and friendship again, but not a pale shadow of the love I had felt.

And with the mind, even of humans, behaving in a habituated, instinctive fashion, many an insightful perception or suggestion is rejected out of hand by the deeply engrained, yet erroneous, patterns adhered to by the majority.

Finlay reports from his Ohio home that he is currently working on several heroic fantasy tales, but for the moment we've got this contemporary tale, an insightful look into the life of a magazine publisher.

With that insightful power which filled Moneo with such awe, Leto said: "There's a lesson in every temptation, Moneo.

He was a paragon among males, an insightful man of refined sensibilities, a man of vision and intelligence, a man of strong character.