revealing

UK /ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/ US /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/

adj 2noun 1

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

ADV

deeply, highly, particularly, very

The interview was particularly revealing about how the company had been losing money for years.

quite, rather

PREP

about

Her diary entries were quite revealing about her true feelings during that difficult period.

Definitions

adj

Informative.

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.”

a revealing analysis

Allowing more than is usual to be seen.

Her shirt is rather revealing.

noun

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[…]

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Synonyms

noun — the speech act of making something evident

adjective — disclosing unintentionally something concealed

telling

Antonyms

concealing

Idioms & Phrases

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a revealing analysis

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Her shirt is rather revealing.

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It became clear that we were witnessing a great revealing of secrets.

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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[…]

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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.

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