Revealing

/ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Informative; providing new information..

Definitions by Sense

1. Informative; providing new information.
2. (of clothing) Allowing more than is usual to be seen.
3. present participle and gerund of reveal
4. An act of revealing; the process of revealing; something revealed.

Example Sentences

a revealing analysis

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.”

Her shirt is rather revealing.

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.

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• more revealing
• most revealing
• revealings

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