revealing

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ

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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.

Translations

of clothing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會走光／会走光, 会走光 (huì zǒuguāng)

• Finnish: paljastava (fi)
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• Greek: αποκαλυπτικός (el) (apokalyptikós)
• Russian: открове́нный (ru) (otkrovénnyj)

Verb

revealing

1. present participle 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 […]

Anagrams

• Graveline, laveering