revealing

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/
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/ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/ · /ɹəˈviːlɪŋ/ · /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/ · /ɹəˈvilɪŋ/

Definition of revealing

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Informative; providing new information.
    “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”
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adj

  1. Informative; providing new information.
    “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. Allowing more than is usual to be seen.
    “Her shirt is rather revealing.”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of reveal

noun

  1. 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[…]”
    “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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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