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revealing

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ//
  • United Kingdom//ɹəˈviːlɪŋ//
  • United States//ɹɪˈvilɪŋ//
  • United States//ɹəˈvilɪŋ//

Informative; providing new information.

adjective

  1. 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. 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. 1

    Also a form of revealpresent participle and gerund of reveal

noun

  1. 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
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).