insightful

insight | American Dictionary

insight
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈɪnˌsɑɪt/
a clear, deep, and sometimes sudden understanding of a complicated problem or situation, or the ability to have such an understanding:
[ C ]Hurston’s writings were recognized for their insights.
[ U ]His work shows originality and insight.

insightful

adjectiveus/ɪnˈsɑɪt·fəl, ˈɪnˌsɑɪt-/
an insightful observation

Examples of insight

insight
Detailed parameter studies of future planned experiments will probably give more insight.
The results, presenting both qualitative and quantitative analyses, provide interesting insights into the responses of the students to the experiment itself.
A second, perhaps more important reason, is that qualitative insights can be obtained.
These solutions provide qualitative insight for the process of secondary oil recovery if the polymer concentration of liquid injected into the reservoir varies with time.
The aim is to provide insight into the more rigorous formalization that will be provided in the following sections.
It gives insight into the format of experts' knowledge structures; experts turn out to use mainly frame representations.
Nevertheless, we consider them here for their insight into systems that acquire representations appropriate for a cognitive domain through a learning process.
It draws on important insights associated with other theodicies, but attempts to get past their alleged shortcomings.
The collection would have benefited from a synthesis of the many insights and contrasting patterns to be found in the country-specific chapters.
Then the implication of these theories is that we have nothing to say which can impart insight.
Our findings offer insights into whether and how the major structural changes during recent decades have affected older adults.
We show that the insights offered by the growth-optimal bounds differ substantially from those obtained by other nonparametric bounds.
The study of such a model provides insights at the queue length (and thus the congestion of a junction) under a heavy load.
A large statistical database has been obtained which provides considerable insight to the structural and transport properties of thermally stratified turbulence.
In the absence of spatial analysis, it is unlikely that similar insights or advances could have been achieved.
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Collocations withinsight

insight

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additional insight
The analyses offer additionalinsight into the dynamics of representation across countries.
considerable insight
In recent years considerableinsight has been gained into the problems of current philosophy of science by considering the historical dimension of the sciences.
crucial insight
But this crucialinsight + and problematic + has not been systematically followed up in the social science literature.
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