revealing
Syllables: re·veal·ingUK/ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ//ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/
revealing adjective: informative; providing new information. Also the present participle and gerund of reveal.
Adjective
revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)
- 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.”2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2020
- Synonyms:
- telling
- Allowing more of the body to be seen than is usual.
- Her shirt is rather revealing.
- Synonyms:
- scanty
Noun
revealing (plural revealings)
- 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[…]1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 113
- Synonyms:
- revelation, disclosure, uncovering, unveiling, apocalypse
Also used as
revealing is also the present participle and gerund of reveal.
Examples of revealing in a sentence
- She blew the dust off the cookbook, revealing its full title.
- The police unblurred the suspect's photograph when the injunction against revealing his identity was lifted.
- A datamine was released today, revealing several unreleased characters in this game.
Synonyms of revealing
Forms of revealing
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more revealing |
| superlative | most revealing |
| Noun | |
| plural | revealings |
Origin of revealing
From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal + -ing.
Words formed from revealing
Phrases with revealing
Words that rhyme with revealing
- ceiling
- feeling
- healing
- concealing
- dealing
- Eling
- glass ceiling
- peeling
- shieling
- stealing
- wheeling
- appealing
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Questions about revealing
- What does revealing mean?
- Revealing means informative; providing new information.
- What part of speech is revealing?
- Revealing can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce revealing?
- Revealing is pronounced /ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near revealing in the dictionary
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