revealing
adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ//
- United Kingdom//ɹəˈviːlɪŋ//
- United States//ɹɪˈvilɪŋ//
- United States//ɹəˈvilɪŋ//
Informative; providing new information.
adjective
- 1
Informative; providing new information.
a revealing analysis
Lest anyone on the left think that Tucker [Carlson] and his friends are potential anti-capitalist allies, their specific objections to corporate capitalism are revealing. To them, the real issue is not labor exploitation, but rather the “corporate alliance with the progressive left.”
- 2
Allowing more of the body to be seen than is usual.
Her shirt is rather revealing.
Etymology
From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal + -ing.
verb
- 1
Also a form of revealpresent participle and gerund of reveal
noun
- 1
An act of revealing; the process of revealing; something revealed.
It became clear that we were witnessing a great revealing of secrets.
In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind[…]
She paused a moment; while vaguely to his secret self Pierre revolved these strange revealings; but now he was all attention again as Isabel resumed.
Forms
- plural
- revealings
- comparative
- more revealing
- superlative
- most revealing
revealing · Informative; providing new information.
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