revealing

English

Etymology

From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal + -ing.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/, /ɹəˈviːlɪŋ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/, /ɹəˈvilɪŋ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: re‧veal‧ing

Adjective

revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)

  1. Informative.
    • 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
      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
  2. Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.
    Her shirt is rather revealing.

Translations

Verb

revealing

  1. present participle and gerund of reveal

Noun

revealing (plural revealings)

  1. Something revealed; a revelation.
    • 1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 113:
      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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