revealing

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/, /ɹəˈviːlɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/, /ɹəˈvilɪŋ/

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• 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^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• revealingness

Translations

of clothing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會走光 / 会走光 (huì zǒuguāng)

• Finnish: paljastava (fi)
• German: gewagt (de), freizügig (de)
• Greek: αποκαλυπτικός (el) (apokalyptikós)
• Russian: открове́нный (ru) (otkrovénnyj)

Verb

revealing

1. present participle and gerund of reveal

Noun

revealing (plural revealings)

1. An act of revealing; the process of revealing; something revealed.

   Synonyms: revelation, disclosure, uncovering, unveiling; apocalypse

   Coordinate term: realization

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

   • 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 […]

   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     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.

Anagrams

• Graveline, laveering