revealing
English
Etymology
From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal + -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/, /ɹəˈviːlɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/, /ɹəˈvilɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
- Hyphenation: re‧veal‧ing
Adjective
revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)
- 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
- Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.
- Her shirt is rather revealing.
Translations
of clothing
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Noun
revealing (plural revealings)
- 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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