as in wise
having or showing deep understanding and intelligent application of knowledge
a critical study featuring an insightful analysis of the novelist's recurring themes
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Recent Examples of insightful
This insightful book profiles the writers Austen herself read and loved and recounts Romney’s experience reading them, finding rare copies of their works and drawing on connections between their words and Austen’s.
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
Carson's passion for neuroscience, insightful questions, and enthusiasm for learning inspire his classmates and enrich every discussion.
—Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
The screenplay features sharp dialogue filled with insightful observations about showbiz and emphasizes the lives of those around Kelly, especially Ron, depicted with a mix of heartfelt vulnerability and steady strength, serving as the anchor who helps Kelly navigate his challenges.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2025
Whether any individual contribution was cruel or caring, insightful or stupid, that didn’t matter.
—Paul McAdory, Them., 9 Dec. 2025
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Or similarly, users pointing out that the Ratliff children, when seated three abreast, resemble the three wise monkeys of see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.—
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Up in the balcony, even Statler and Waldorf have stopped cracking wise.—
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For this precancerous, very early-stage breast condition, careful monitoring may be more prudent than immediate surgery, research shows.—
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That’s the most prudent path here.—
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Those med students, cocky know-it-all Ogilvy (Lucas Iverson) and acerbic, perceptive Joy (Irene Choi), are drops in a flood of new faces that mark one of the few ways a show set in a single place can meaningfully scale up.—
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The legends’ insidious insinuation that many of the Jews around Jesus were not as perceptive as the animals is part of medieval Europe’s widespread antisemitism.—
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“Insightful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insightful. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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