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tellingly

tellingly adverb: in a telling manner.

Adverb

tellingly (comparative more tellingly, superlative most tellingly)

  1. In a telling manner.
    • It demanded taxes, which in a cashless society meant grain, cattle and, most tellingly, labor.2005, Jane R. Hogan, M. W. Daly, Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan
    • Most tellingly, the recipe from Causes and Cures prescribes a vinegared wine but the recipe from Physica prescribes vinegar or wine, yet when the explanation of how the medicine works is given, in both passages it has been assumed that the ingredient of the Causes and Cures’ version (vinegared...2006, Victoria Sweet, Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine, Routledge

tellingly meaning in Urdu

tellingly in Urdu

کارگر طور پر

Forms of tellingly

comparativemore tellingly
superlativemost tellingly

Origin of tellingly

From telling + -ly.

Questions about tellingly

What does tellingly mean?
Tellingly means in a telling manner.
What is tellingly in Urdu?
Tellingly in Urdu is کارگر طور پر. See Tellingly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is tellingly?
Tellingly is an adverb.

Words near tellingly in the dictionary

  1. telling time
  2. telling volumes
  3. telling-off
  4. telling-offs
  5. telling-to
  6. tellingly
  7. tellingness
  8. tellings
  9. tellings off
  10. tellings-off
  11. Tellington

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tellingly (page history and authors); tellingly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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